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Lederberg is familiar with all the reasons why nonearthly life will probably perish when exposed to an earthly environment. But he points out that earth's scientists know only one kind of life, the familiar earthly form based on amino acids linked into protein molecules. This sort of life requires a watery environment and a narrow range of temperature. Elsewhere in the universe there may be living organisms that contain no amino acids, need no water, and can live and multiply at extremely high or extremely low temperatures. Such exobiota might do better on earth than native living creatures...
James S. Lanigan '39, the Democratic reform candidate who defeated Tammany Hall boas Carmine DeSapio, asserted Thursday night that "we've got to make democracy work otherwise we perish...
...Ball was aware that such a policy will meet with strong opposition. "There is hardly a day," said he, "when a representative of industry does not assert emphatically to us in Washington that his industry needs a system of rigid quotas to keep out foreign imports or it will perish." Ball argued that European nations also resisted such changes when the Common Market was first proposed. Yet once they made the "hard choices"-mergers, increased investment, modernization-"many found to their great relief that the dreaded competition from other European producers was not so formidable after all. The adjustments have...
...hatred toward the community of Socialist countries?" Shrilly, Nikita went on, "It is hard to believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise, can make such a malicious man-hating appeal. She should understand that in the fire of nuclear war millions of people would perish, including her own children, if she has any. Even the wildest of animals, a tigress even, worries about her cubs, licks and pities them...
...assemblers at times seem out just for kicks, occasionally seem to be making a point of being noisome, often deliberately choose materials so fragile that their assemblages are doomed to perish. But for all their adventuresomeness and intransigence, they have in their way brought back the image that the abstractionists suppressed. In that sense, they are an avant-garde attacking from the rear...