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Current exhibits here include "20 Million Years of Human Evolution," "Chemistry of Heredity," and "Extinct and Vanishing Birds of North America." Among the museum's specimens are George Washington's pheasants, whale skeletons, the largest turtle shell ever found, and a 42 foot long Kronosaurus skeleton...
...case of providing an alternative instructor, the University might or might not have to lower its rigorous hiring standards a bit in the name of expediency. It would no doubt have to shell out more money...
...everyone was jubilant. Antiwarrior D.H. Lawrence snapped at a group of celebrators, "It makes me sick to see you rejoicing like a butterfly in the last rays of the sun before the winter . . . Europe is done for; England most of all." And Joseph Conrad, whose son had been shell- shocked in France, wrote, "I cannot confess to an easy mind . . . Great and blind forces are set catastrophically all over the world...
HRV14 is marvelously complex; its genetic material is surrounded by a 20- sided outer shell that vaguely resembles a soccer ball. The sides consist of three identical triangles each containing three proteins on its irregular surface, and one below it. On the surface proteins, the researchers discovered, features that resemble mountaintops are actually antigens, structures that antibodies seek out and attach themselves to when attacking the virus. A "canyon" snakes between these mountaintops and is believed by scientists to be shaped specifically to fit over projections, or receptors, on the surface of human cells. The virus may use this canyon...
...also become top sellers. Japan's Cateye makes a $66 solar-powered magnetic device that tells a % biker the average speed and distance traveled. San Diego-based SkidLid Manufacturing produces a $52 helmet with a rear-view mirror. There are even accessories for babies: the $30 L'il Bell Shell helmet is designed for tots riding on the back of their parent's bike...