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...Marmosets, baboons, gibbons and probably most other monkeys have multiple births. So, rarely, do horses, cows, sheep, deer. Some species in which multiple births have never been recorded: whale, porpoise, zebra, buffalo. African antelope, giraffe, camel, llama, sea lion, walrus, hippopotamus, sloth, anteater, and the major varieties of elephant, rhinoceros and kangaroo. Bears ordinarily produce 2-3 young, striped hyenas 3-4, ferrets 6-10, hedgehogs 3-6, Australian dingo dogs...
...disappointing. The course has been aptly called a revue; it should be added that the songs and dances of the professorial chorines are in the main dusty and dull. Instead of creating vivid pictures of the great English men of letters and their work, most of the lecturers, through sloth or indifference, confine themselves to a leisurely recounting of when an author lived, where he went to school, what he wrote, and what critics have said about him since; and all of that can be read in more lucid form in Moody and Lovett. There are exceptions, Professor Murray...
...before he was supposed to." Reason for such a conclusion from Dr. Mark Raymond Harrington of the Los Angeles Southwest Museum: he had discovered remains of a man-made fire under seven feet of gypsum in a Nevada cave. The fire was surrounded by bones of a giant ground sloth which apparently the fire-builder had dis patched and eaten. Also in the cave were discovered 900 man-things, including scores of long fighting darts, feathers bound with sinew (probably a religious piece), a white stone knife, gypsum pendants...
...treated with crime, what is one to do with the vicious creatures whom the combination of slum environment, bootlegging, and a certain indigenous American lawlessness have bred in teeming swarms? The first step seems to be to bring the penitentiary system out of its almost medieval sloth, and to coordinate penology with science. Psychology and research have discovered that a prisoner's future record will depend but little on the crime he was incarcerated for, but more importantly on his home environment, his habits, and his character. Thus to herd in one ensemble first offenders, murderers, and speeders results merely...
...have been priests and prophets of abundant living. We have schooled our students to be clever competitors in the world as it is, when we should have been helping them to become creative cooperators in the making of the world as it is to be. ... From these sins of sloth may we be free. . . . May we be shepherds of the spirit as well as masters of the mind...