Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to return to the romantics, however, to realize that the same situation is as true here. At this point, the problem becomes plain. There is a cerebral process of craftsmanship going on and an emotional dream world. But the two never really merge. There is absolutely no emotional equilibrium, no spiritual harmony. All the controls are academically understood, but almost never felt. All the emotion, hopelessly sweet or uncompromisingly grim, is deeply felt, but utterly without proportion...
...Rights -including the "double jeopardy" Fifth Amendment-is meant to be binding on the Federal Government only; similar U.S. constitutional rights apply to the states only under the clause in the 14th Amendment,* which provides that no state may deprive a man of "life, liberty or property" without "due process...
...hailstones bigger than cherries, played an important role last week in answering the prayers of Councilman Fisher: he and the rest of his Democratic coalition slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked out the nonpartisan Citizens Association Party that had ruled the once corrupt city for 19 healthy years. Citizens Association survivor of the hail-battered election: popular Mayor H. (for Harold) Roe Bartle...
...atomic holocaust, insects may be the only creatures left alive for miles around. Some species can survive a radiation dose 200-300 times greater than that which would kill an elephant or a man. One explanation: cells are most susceptible to radiation damage when they are in the process of dividing. Since many insects, unlike humans, undergo no cell division during much of their lives, they are more highly resistant to radiation...
...human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with blood, and then all the cells under its body wall divide simultaneously. Furthermore, it can live for a year on one meal, after drinking up to twelve times its weight. Until its next feeding, its cells are in a nondividing state...