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...inactive crystals-a structure that scientists had suspected but never observed. Other photographs reveal the protective shift of tiny sacs of fluid called vacuoles, which are distributed through the cytoplasm of a young, active cell. During anabiosis, they line up in rows against the inner cell wall, probably to strengthen and insulate it against long periods of heat or cold, and to facilitate the rapid absorption of water when it becomes available...
...Dave Worcester has successfully displaced Chris Wickens. Either Wickens or Jeff Grant will wrestle 177, and the other will move to 191. Bill Malugen, who started at 191 in the first three matches, has paid dearly for his inexperience in each of them, and the change will probably strengthen Harvard in the upper weight classes...
...going-over. For six weeks the bill was before a study committee, was then passed on to the Justice Committee, which reworded it. One old-guard Falangist, charging that the bill was "unconstitutional," tried to get it thrown out. Fifteen other legislators wanted to tack on amendments that would strengthen workers' rights even more. And, when the measure finally reached the floor, 35 members actually voted against it-because they thought it did not go far enough...
...Profit." He condemned the Marxists as being "illogical and so dull" and saw himself as a doctor of capitalism, which he was convinced could lead mankind to universal plenty within a century. Communists, Marxists and the British Labor Party's radical fringe damned Keynes because he sought to strengthen a system that they wanted to overthrow...
...Jets Owner Werblin was concerned. "What San Diego did was shameful," sputtered Werblin. "They have a set ball club, so they drafted ten fellows who could have played with any of us and made no serious attempt to sign them. They're afraid to strengthen the other A.F.L. teams...