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Most species breed out serious aberrations like hermaphroditism, but this is not happening in the case of Bothrops insularis. When Dr. Hoge examined pickled specimens collected before World War II, he found a much bigger proportion of normal individuals. Recently, Dr. Hoge went back and collected 68 fresh snakes on the island, plans to coop them up together in pairs in all possible combinations to see whether pairs of hermaphrodites can reproduce without male participation. However they reproduce, the hermaphrodites are comparatively infertile, produce only four to six embryos v. the 20 to 24 of mainland vipers. "In my opinion...
...Seconds. First, Bond and Tuckfield checked the lights, emergency gear-and each other. Then Tuckfield opened a seacock, and the forward escape hatch began to fill with water. The men stayed at normal atmospheric pressure because excess air and their stale breath escaped through a vent line into the torpedo room. As the 68° water rose to their chins, Bond and Tuckfield shivered. With half a minute to go, the doctor gave the order and the chief opened a valve, letting air under 225 Ibs. pressure gush into the hatch. The outlet vent was closed. The air pressure zoomed...
...which would open when pressure inside and out was equalized. After 25 seconds, he felt it give, and yelled: "On the bottom!" Tuckfield closed the air inlet. They were now up to their necks in water, and breathing air at a pressure of about ten atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau's "rapture of the deep"-which makes men behave irrationally...
...curriculum to the summer session. It is far more difficult, for example, to take a useful number of courses when the summer term is not even approximately the same length as the others. Stanford has made things easier by dividing the regular year into three parts, instead of the normal...
Most University officials, as well as the Masters, concede that the Houses are crowded beyond the desirable point, several officials said. But the problem arises--is total deconversion to the "normal" capacity of each suite a desideratum? John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, contended yesterday that it is. "It may be assumed as a simple rule," he said, "that everyone needs a room by himself...