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...makes it clear that speleology is no job for a claustrophobe. "Very few tubes are im-passable," declares Casteret, "if one knows how to crawl (there is an art to it) and dares to keep on, come what may. Thanks to his shape, man can stretch out longer and thinner than any animal of his size...
Twenty minutes later the membrane became thinner at one point, and two gobs of yellowish jelly ("polar bodies") were pushed out. Then the cell became furrowed, but cell division did not actually take place, and the egg was kept alive for only eight hours...
...former bad men who had renounced their evil ways and reformed. To many a Westerner, the swashbuckling hold-up man who confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States for a number of years were all untrue, claimed that...
...Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...
...choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They were in great danger, for the ice cake, once big enough to hold a sizable town, was getting rapidly smaller. Once ten feet thick, it was getting thinner...