Word: plankton
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...thick Jovian atmosphere like plankton-eating whales. But even the failure to discover biological activity on the other planets circling the sun will not discourage the life seekers. They will then turn their full attention to the stars. For they are certain that given the right conditions, the creation of life anywhere in the universe is more the rule than a miraculous accident...
Albert Bradford's way out--a consumptive involvement with drugs--was actually only a means of getting deeper into the mire. He became a part of the ghetto's plankton, drifting in the flow of the demand and supply of junk and junk money. "By the time I was 16, I was so hooked on skag all I could see was drugs. When I saw dollar bills. I saw skag...
Researchers have lately pondered the fact that aquatic organisms (fish, plankton, diatoms, insect larvae) concentrate the dissolved pollutants in their bodies. That fact led Robert Metcalf, head of the University of Illinois' zoology department, to a fascinating idea: Why not use certain insects to sop up the pollutants...
...Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and, as a one-line badman in a yet-to-be-released western (Rio Lobo), he was shot and killed by John Wayne, who never could decide whether the tall (6 ft. 4 in.) bit player's name was Plimpleton, Pembleton, Parfilton or Plankton...
...atolls and lagoons in the Pacific. Indeed, the open sea itself may be "ranched." Columbia University Marine Biologist Oswald Roels is now exploring a "fertilizing" scheme in which a seagoing dredge would bring up nutrients from the depths, distribute them near the surface to encourage the growth of plankton, and harvest the fish that might then thrive in the area...