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...quality of professors under whom they wish to study. Professors should be able to involve themselves with the student body, as well as with academic subject matter. Our experience has shown that the best instructors are the ones who are able to relate to undergraduates as well as to transmit their knowledge...
...heightened level of art, just as art is given the breath of life. During his reading of a poem, the poet performer becomes the poem itself. The interaction between the poet and his audience depends on the degree to which the poet is able to become the poem and transmit its being. Paradoxically, it is when the poet is able to forget the audience that this interaction is most likely to occur, for then he is able to escape time. Yevtushenko in personal poems such as "Let's not..." seemed capable of this transformation...
...mice, but that the reconstructed tissue continued to develop in a normal way. Now, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Seeds and a colleague, Albert E. Vatter, disclose that the cells in the test tube mature and form synapses, the vital cell-to-cell connections that transmit messages through the brain and the rest of the nervous system. The material also appears to develop the myelin "insulation" that covers part of the cell in order to protect the messages from interference by other nearby cells...
...other formidable problems in communicating with an alien race. At what frequency would a civilization listen for and transmit messages? Many scientists have proposed the 21-cm. band, which is the wave length of emissions from the hydrogen atom, the most abundant element in the universe. Another hurdle might well be the choice of a language that would be universally understood by intelligent beings (see diagram, page 56). Also, because man has so recently entered a technological state, any civilization capable of receiving earthly signs might be far more sophisticated. Would it bother to reply? Possibly not, according to Sagan...
...return with recommendations. The ten, in turn, dispatched the four-man mission on the first incursion of African diplomacy into the tangled Middle East. On arrival, Senghor spoke of the Africans, Arabs and Jews as "a trilogy of suffering peoples," and added: "We have a message of humanity to transmit to the world...