Word: pre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This weekend, as the Ivies opened '79, the unexpected swiftly threw the league into turmoil. Brown, a heavy, pre-season favorite, took its first strike as the Bruins caught a severe case of blocked-punt fever and fell to the Elis, 13-12, before the loonies at the Yale Bowl...
...performances of Scidmore, Eichner and Logan, while not a total surprise, certainly exceeded expectations. For the first time in his collegiate career, Eichner has reasonable pre-season preparation to fall back on in addition to his tremendous natural ability. Meanwhile, junior Scidmore sports good health not seen since his bout with pneumonia two years...
...surprises of the first week confirm that once again pre-season outlooks mean little. One die-hard Harvard optimist said jokingly after yesterday's win, "Dartmouth and Brown both lost, so we have the Ivy title clinched...
...meteorites found in Antarctica, where they had been frozen in ice for 200,000 years, Ponnamperuma and his colleagues discovered many amino acids, about half of them different from any that are found in living organisms. Two facts convinced him that the acids are, in his words, "extraterrestrial and pre-biotic": 1) Unlike the Murchison meteorite, which had been contaminated by earthly organic matter after it fell, the Antarctic meteorites were pristine, containing only the amino acids they brought to the earth from space...
...When polarized light was passed through solutions of water and some of the amino acids, it was deflected to the right. "In all the '20 amino acids we know of on earth," says Ponnamperuma, "the polarized light turns to the left." But, he adds, "In all the pre-biotic experiments conducted in our laboratory, we got both lefthanded and righthanded amino acids." His conclusion: the amino acids are not due to terrestrial contamination, but to pre-life forms that evolved somewhere in space...