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...uneasiness among scientists over current explanations about how life arose spontaneously on earth. Crick and Orgel note, for example, that the element molybdenum plays a key role in many enzymatic reactions that are important to life. Yet molybdenum is a rare element, much less abundant than, say, chromium or nickel -which are relatively unimportant in biochemical reactions. Thus, because the chemical composition of organisms "must reflect to some extent the composition of the environment in which they evolved," the authors suggest that earth life could have begun on a planet where molybdenum is more abundant...
...never campaigned for nor contributed a nickel to Nixon in any campaign for any office. Neither do I consider myself "a presidential supporter...
...miners of Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile knew Herbert Hoover before the turn of the century as a young gold-mining engineer and balladeer in love with a local barmaid. Today Kalgoorlie is a nickel-mining center of 26,000, with 37 saloons, tolerated brothels and streets still wide enough to turn a horse team around. It is a part of a vast interior that few Australians ever see, since four-fifths of the country's 13 million people live in coastal cities. Together with such other way stations as Cookamidgera, Ivanhoe, Broken Hill, Bookaloo, Tarcoola, Koolyanobbing and Doodlakine...
...Indian-Pacific rushes over a kaleidoscope of landscape. From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain. It flashes by farms with earth so red that the livestock watering holes seem to be filled with blood. It races past nickel, lead and gold mines, flocks of fleecy merinos, smelters, slag heaps, ports and forests. It passes signs exhorting WELFARE NOT WARFARE and OUR HOSPITAL NEEDS YOUR HELP: PLEASE GET SICK. A big painted rock aimed at shooing away pilots seeking to land says PISS OFF. To the north, lights from...
...Indian-Pacific rushes into its third night, past the gold and nickel of Kalgoorlie, the great iron deposits at Koolyanobbing, and on over the wheat fields of Kellerberrin, glistening under the moon. This is Australia's West...