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...Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery...
...example, in tracing the origin of communication between caterpillars and ants, Pierce has worked with both molecular biologists and biochemists...
...example, in tracing the origin of communication between caterpillars and ants, Pierce has worked with both molecular biologists and biochemists...
...choice of word is instructive. Its image is not its origin. Monster conjures up a three-headed Cerberus at the gates of Hades. Etymologically, however, the word has few frills. It is related to demonstrate and to remonstrate, and ultimately comes from the Latin monstrum, an omen portending the will of the gods, which is itself linked to the verb monere, to warn. If a city sinned against heaven, heaven sent it a monster. One can argue that the Sphinx, who confronted travelers to Thebes with her famous riddle, was born of some Oedipal crime and performed an important...
...identification tags. To foil counterfeiting, for instance, everything from paper currency to designer jeans and compact discs might be laced with DNA markers. Oil carried in tankers and toxic chemicals carried in trucks might similarly be "branded" by molecules of synthetic DNA. With PCR, a spill of unknown origin could then be traced back to the responsible party...