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Three planets were nominated as possible havens for such life. Nobel Chemistry Laureate Willard F. Libby speculated that oxygen detected on Venus by a Soviet space probe last October may well be the product of plant photosynthesis. Jupiter, said NASA Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma, has an atmosphere similar to that which enveloped the earth during its first 100 million years; the swirling Jovian gases, he added, may already have combined into basic life-building molecules. But the strongest argument was made on behalf of Mars. Despite its freezing temperatures and apparent lack of oxygen, explained NASA Microbiologist Harold P. Klein, life...
...diffident, Perutz began to probe the hemoglobin structure in 1937, after he came to Cambridge as a refugee graduate student. His work was interrupted during the war because he was interned as an enemy alien; then he was released to work on a bizarre and impractical scheme to tow Arctic ice islands into the North Atlantic to serve as airbases...
Bell stock is hung up partly on the uncertainties surrounding the complex and seemingly endless FCC probe even though A.T. & T. Chairman H. I. Romnes points out, "the commission has clearly recognized" that A.T. & T. earnings should provide "ample incentives to progress...
...caliber "long rifle," hollow-nosed slugs* had entered the right armpit and worked its way up to the neck; it was relatively harmless. The other had penetrated his skull and passed into the brain, scattering fragments of lead and bone. It was these that the surgeons had to probe for in their 3-hr. 40-min. operation (see MEDICINE...
...judged if only because of its dazzling technical perfection. To be able to see beyond that may take a few years. When we have grown used to beautiful strange machines, and the wonder of Kubrick's special effects wears off by duplication in other Hollywood films, then we can probe confidently beyond 2001's initial fascination and decide what kind of a film it really...