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...More deadly yet would be large fission-fusion-fission bombs whose outer blankets of cheap uranium 238 yield energy as well as deadly fission products. Clark believes that any nuclear power could easily destroy a nation with the close-range fallout effect from this type of bomb, but he thinks that the human race as a whole would be more resistant...
Influenza viruses were found to have horns or spikes. On some of these is an enzyme that can dissolve part of a cell's outer coating. Presumably, this is what the flu virus uses to open a hole in the cell-factory wall for its nucleic-acid core to slip through. A virus known as T2 bacteriophage (it attacks bacteria) was found to have a tadpole shape; the "tail" is like a coiled spring around a tiny hypodermic needle that stabs the cell wall, and through this the nucleic-acid core is injected. Micrographs show whether viruses are basically...
Think how dull life would be if there were no possibility of nuclear war. No funny articles in the CRIMSON. No bomb shelters to build. No Civil Defense practices in the middle of Hayden's fifth concerto. Why, we'd have to return to the outer space scares, or perhaps invent something...
Anything but an angry young exercise in social realism, The Caretaker is a study of the human condition at the outer limit of endurance, both funny and tragic, paradoxically baffling and plausible, gifted with the poet's touch of universality, and turned out in colloquial dialogue that is breathtakingly cadenced and exact. It has been interpreted as everything from an allegory of the cold war to a modern view of Christ, man, and Satan, but unlike so much of the so-called avant-garde, it is thoroughly alive on Level One: the stage...
...having it declared a substantive issue-or one requiring a two-thirds majority). Pressure was brought to bear on Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador to Nationalist China Everett Drumright to give up his veto of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refused to budge; he feared that membership for Outer Mongolia was only the first step in the U.N. recognition of Red China. Bitterly, he sent a letter to France's Charles de Gaulle, asking for his help in threatening or importuning the French Africans; De Gaulle replied that...