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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the photographs show that the sun, though completely gaseous, has mountains-vast mounds of luminous gas as much as 100 miles high. The mounds seem to have some connection with sun spots (solar hurricanes), but they often appear before the spots break through the sun's surface and they persist long after the spots have disappeared. Around the peaks and valleys of these gaseous mountains blow winds whose speed may be greater than 300,000 m.p.h...
...major difficulty at first was infertile eggs. As every barnyard observer knows, mating roosters need their wings for balance. Baumann's early wingless roosters were so unstable that often only some 10% of the eggs would hatch at all. Baumann sometimes used artificial insemination. Eventually nature solved the fertility problem. Some of the wingless roosters gradually learned a new technique of wingless balancing...
...never come before, some of his friends have said, largely because of what he has -heard about U.S. publicity and ballyhoo methods. But all through his first ordeal-by-press he seemed to be having a fine time. He turned his massive head alertly from questioner to questioner, often exploding into easy laughter, several times correcting his interpreter in the translation of a phrase. He seemed genuinely surprised by the big turnout. "You are so nice to me," he exclaimed at last in French. "You treat me like a big banker or a prizefighter...
...dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs"). His parents had all they could do to keep him at his piano lessons. Twenty minutes was set aside for practicing each day, but Albert often scandalized the family by spending the first 15 minutes in the bathroom groaning with a trumped-up stomachache...
...instinctive respect for all living creatures seemed strange to his schoolmates, and often it made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...