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...chilly March day, the sky ash colored, moist with drizzle. Outside the Washington Hilton Hotel sat a long line of black cars and military vehicles, a commonplace scene in the nation's capital. At about two o'clock, the President of the U.S. walked out from his scheduled appearance there--a slot on his calendar, nothing unusual in the life of a President. He turned, smiled, waved to the gathered crowd, squinting a little even though the day was dull, maybe to see better because he's nearsighted and didn't always wear his contact lenses. Then came the gunshots...
...lover at Ohio State. In scenes that should be crowded-a classroom, a movie screening-the only characters on stage are those directly mentioned in Alexanders' lecture. And in place of the constant snowfall called for in Kennedy's script there is only Molly Hughes' wonderfully stark, starless night sky...
Forget the fact that the game was already won after the second inning. Never mind that the sky was grayer than the Yankees' aging roster, or that the air was colder than the reception received by Roger Clemens the last time he pitched in Boston...
Meanwhile, if there's a clear sky tonight, go outside and look up. After reading this issue, the view will never look the same...
...underlying this amazing variety and the coherent fossil record of 3.5 billion years (implying a single branching tree of earthly life with a common trunk) indicate that every living thing on Earth, from the tiniest bacterium on the ocean floor to the highest albatross that ever flew in the sky, arose as the magnificently diversified evolutionary outcome of one single experiment performed by nature, one origin of life in the early history of one particular planet...