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...first to report finding amino acids in meteorites, which are believed to be fragments from the thousands of asteroids that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But previous claims have invariably been discredited because the amino acids were suspected to be of terrestrial origin; they could easily have contaminated the meteorites during or after their plunge through the earth's atmosphere. Even Ponnamperuma, a highly respected exobiologist (extraterrestrial biologist) at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, admits that only a thumbprint on a beaker could introduce amino acids into a meteorite sample...
...does not consist in attaining particular goals but in the physical annihilation of the enemy. My order is to send every man, woman and child of Polish origin and language to their deaths mercilessly and without pity...
...statements which describe the origin or meaning of policy decisions which make the confidential reports the most "frank, comprehensive, and communicative" set of documents concerning the work of the DAs. For example, the public pronouncements of the DAS' have deliberately created the impression that the agency's orientation has been strictly economic in nature, and that there is little intention among DAS officials of contributing to the political needs or desires of any given regime. But the field report concerning the first 13 months of DAS work in Indonesia, discussing a development plan which had been prepared with DAS assistance...
Obsessed by the Sun. Mumford traces the origin of such urges to the 16th century astronomer Galileo, whose unwitting crime was that he left man out of his reckoning. Preoccupied with the orderly behavior of the planets in the heavens, Galileo, and the scientists who followed him, says Mumford, assumed that life on earth could be reduced to neat, predictable patterns. With his customary prophetic fervor, Mumford accuses Galileo of "driving man out of living nature into a cosmic desert even more peremptorily than Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden...
...effort to find the smell's origin, the Department of Buildings and Grounds recently completed a study of Lamont's ventilation system. Results of the investigation were sent yesterday in a letter to John J. Gallen, Senior Assistant in the Lamont Library...