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Thomas' previous books, The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail, described many aspects of science, technology, computers, and their effects on human life. Writing in a graceful and easy prose, he showed a flair for bringing technical and erudite concepts within reach of a layman. In his latest book, he repeats this feat, writing smoothly and understandably of histocompatibility complexes, mycoplasmas, and endotoxins...
...Crimson should have had no trouble against Curry, which did its best to give the game away by committing a series of baserunning errors in addition. Harvard batters faced hurlers whose offerings appeared snail-like in comparison to those of the Ivy pitchers the Crimson encountered last week...
...before World War I, Russia, and next a long sojourn at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s, then a last expatriation to Paris after the rise of Hitler. If ever a painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more to promote the notion of ideal abstraction, in those distant years before World War I, than any other European artist...
Some veterans ruefully suspect that they are being merely patronized as this season's cause ? the moral equivalent of snail darters or baby seals. But the vets' anger, emerging now less encumbered by the old shame of the loser, less haunted by the guilt of the war's uniquely vivid violence, has a new force. It contains a certain aggressive pride, expressed almost for the first time. The Viet Nam veterans may have been knocked off the tracks of their careers by two or three years; they may not have caught up yet with their peers, but they...
Last week's arbitration proceedings began at a snail's pace. The first order of business was to choose the panel's three neutral members. Led by Lawyer and veteran Negotiator George Aldrich, the U.S. team put forward several names. But the Iranian delegates, led by Spokesman Seyyed Hossein Enayat, initially made no suggestions at all; thus the selection process seemed certain to continue into this week. Iranian foot dragging only complicated an already knotty set of problems. For one thing, there is a staggering total of more than 2,000 American claims to process. Another hitch...