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...only happy moment during Kieu's 15-year ordeal was her marriage to the rebel chieftain Tu Hai. Although he permitted her to take retribution against her wrongdoers, she did so with a sense of toleration for those whose apparent malicious intent sprang, in fact, from their observance of social mores. When the Imperial authorities offered rewards and a prestigious position at court in exchange for Tu Hai's surrender, Kieu urged him to accept. Although Tu Hai had never lost a battle, he lost his life when he took Kieu's advice...
...acutely personal revelations in Hannah Tillich's book about life with Paulus [Oct. 8]. But upon further reflection. I think her demythologizing will undoubtedly further public interest in a closer study of his writings, with the added insight that here was a philosopher-theologian whose wisdom sprang not from an antiseptic ivory tower but from the morass of personal anguish at being much too human...
...assassination attempts documented in the book-with the lone exception of one by an embittered seaman who blamed De Gaulle for the World War II destruction of the French fleet by the British-sprang from De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria. That policy led to the creation of the militant terrorist group known as the Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.), one of whose principal goals was to kill De Gaulle for having betrayed Algérie française. The authors, Pierre Démaret, 31, who once belonged to the O.A.S., and Christian Plume...
Crick and Orgel also ask why there is only one genetic code for terrestrial life. If creatures sprang to life in some great "primeval soup," as many biologists believe, it is surprising that organisms with a number of different codes do not exist. In fact, Crick and Orgel say, the existence of a single code seems to be entirely compatible with the notion that all life descended from a single instance of directed panspermia...
Stonehenge is his passion. The author argues that the Stonehengers' astronomical virtuosity-they detected a 56-year lunar cycle unnoticed even by modern astronomers until Hawkins' investigation-sprang from an intense feeling that their lives were intimately connected with celestial rhythms. Lunar eclipses, for example, were times fraught with danger; since the arrangement of posts and boulders at Stonehenge allowed prediction of these dark times, the people of Stone Age Salisbury presumably could prepare for them...