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...certain where the water came from, though a collision with an icy comet is likely. Just as important as the origin of the ice is its future. "Settlers could break the water into oxygen and hydrogen and turn them into rocket fuel and air," suggests Dunston. And as for the possibility of ice-dwelling organisms? Not likely. Water may help sustain life, but at nearly 400[degrees] below, it couldn't get started in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON THE ROCKS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...analysis of minority admissions, the Committee indicated that 19 percent of the admitted pool are Asian-American; more than 6 percent are black; and approximately 6 percent are students of Hispanic origin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions Office Accepts 902 for '01 | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

Gilbert's work also provides some insight concerning gene behavior at the time of the origin of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobel Laureate Gilbert Finds New Evidence for Exon Theory | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...That means that ancient regions, which represent genes or portions of genes, have descended in a relatively unchanged manner from a common ancestor," Gilbert told reporters earlier this week. "This supports the theory that introns have facilitated the shuffling of exons from the time of the origin of genes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobel Laureate Gilbert Finds New Evidence for Exon Theory | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...genius leaps across the centuries. When he seeks explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEONARDO REDUX | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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