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Most scientists agree that the 1,000 or so known enzymes owe their prowess to their so-called "active sites," small areas that apparently latch on to specific molecules and guide them together to produce a chemical reaction. But this explanation fails to account for the remarkable speedup that the enzyme contributes to the process...
...earlier-and all but inundated the lovely, spice-scented island with her tears. A plump, matronly woman who had served contentedly as the dutiful wife of a strong-willed man and the mother of three children, she was reluctant to run. Finally she announced: "It is a duty I owe to my late husband...
...owe it to the 11,000 students who did not sign a petition that we protect them," George M. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts. replied. "We must maintain the functions of teaching and research in a free society, not a left-dictatorial society...
Cleopatra's last scenes owe a great deal to the death of Dido. Vergil showed how both love and duty are a calling on the soul. Aeneas provides the greatest example of self-mastery through moderation. He is great for leaving Dido; Antony for joining Cleopatra. In Vergil love is the divine demoniacal; in Shakespeare what is best is demonic and divine. For Cleopatra, as for Dido, rule and passionate love prove irreconcilable, as Charmian's farewell line "Your crown's awry" beautifully explains. Death for both women brings no diminution of majesty but its highest pitch. Cleopatra, like Dido...
...look at it another way: this country is relying on fewer than 100,000 men to produce the raw resource for the steel and electric power without which the United States wouldn't function for five minutes. When you look at it that way, the rest of us owe a lot to the coal miner. Pretty important man. Couldn't get along without...