Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the porphyrins accumulated along with other basic life chemicals in the primitive oceans, the NASA scientists theorize, they interacted with magnesium ions in the ocean, leading eventually to the formation of chlorophyll. Before the appearance of chlorophyll, long-chain, carbon-based molecules could reproduce themselves only by using other of the limited building-block materials in the oceans. With chlorophyll available, some long-chain molecules were able, by photosynthesis, to produce their own life material out of plentiful water and carbon dioxide, thus availing themselves of an endless supply of building materials and ensuring that life would proliferate...
...Edwin A. Link-not Edward Link -designed the Ocean Systems, Inc., submersible Deep Diver shown in TIME'S picture story on oceanography...
...Cause somewhere on that ocean, I know...
...rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera to watch him agonizingly line up and then blow his desperation third shot-and with it any chance for the top prize...
...scavenging genius of the American instinct runs deep: use anything, adapt everything goes the rule, whether it is castles from the Rhine or old British ocean liners. A case in point is Mrs. Florence Barry, 57, owner of a Manhattan thrift shop called Encore. No sooner did she read in the newspaper that the Paris police force was about to discard its famed capes for raglan-sleeved overcoats than she decided that police capes were just the thing for her customers...