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...atmosphere of a pre-life planet, Urey believes, is not like the earth's. It is highly "reducing": i.e., it contains large amounts of methane, ammonia, water vapor and similar compounds, but no free oxygen. The atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn are believed to be like this. As millions of years pass, the sun's light causes chemical reactions among the atmospheric gases. Larger molecules begin to form (e.g., aldehydes, amines, organic acids), and they rain down into the oceans below. There they react with one another and with dissolved salts. All possible chemical compounds are formed eventually...
After a billion or so years of such pre-life evolution, theorizes Urey, the blind forces of chemical attraction accidentally create a single molecule which has the ability to absorb other molecules and create a replica of itself...
...progress. One, conducted by one of his students at the University of Chicago, is to expose a synthetic reducing atmosphere of methane, ammonia and water vapor to ultraviolet rays If organic compounds are formed, it will be proof that they could be formed in the atmosphere of a pre-life planet...
...firebrand editor of the royalist, anti-Semitic L'Action Française newspaper philosophical writer (The Three Aspects of President Wilson, The Future of Intelligence) and venomous opponent of the French Republic ("the whore") and democracy ("the mother of anarchy"); in Tours, France. So violent were his pre-World War II attacks against his enemies-of-the-moment that he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, served time in jail for "incitement to murder" and was deluged with libel suits. Convicted in 1945 of collaborating with the Nazis, he had served seven years of a life imprisonment sentence when...
...need is certainly as great now as in the thirties. The pre-war clinic paid for itself and a new one should be able to do the same. If the Hygiene Department renewed its eye clinic soon, it would win the appreciation of those with weak eyes and moderate pocketbooks throughout the University...