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...Sagan's Cornell laboratory, one of the main objectives was to try to unravel the mystery of how the building blocks of life?amino acids, proteins and DNA?could have evolved on the primordial earth. Although he and the Russian astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii lived half a world apart, they collaborated in writing Intelligent Life in the Universe, still probably the best treatise on the prospects for extraterrestrial life. As a planetary expert, Sagan was called upon by NASA to act as an adviser and scientific investigator on unmanned space missions. He did not always endear himself to the space agency...
...swindles began to unravel last year in Liverpool, where a firm called Eutron Ltd. had hired a British bonded warehouse company to store and label bottles of French wine shipped in from The Netherlands. Eutron ran up a $22,000 bill with the warehouse, which in turn seized 3,000 bottles of wine still awaiting export to the U.S. Meanwhile a British customs officer got curious about the special green certificates of origin that under European Community rules must accompany quality wines. On the Dutch seal on one form, he noticed, the likeness of Queen Juliana was facing...
Brickman's story is a complicated one to retell, but not to unravel. Simon eventually unwinds from his identity crisis to perceive the truth about himself, and escapes with his girlfriend from the Institute after the Pentagon has come with orders to kill him. Along the way, he meets a tribe who worship the Sacred Box, and hold services in which the reader preaches from TV Guide--a comic touch that succeeds in theory, but not in practice, and reminds us that this is, after all, Brickman's first movie...
Some uncharacteristically bad shooting by Fleming, which continued in the second half, and the Crimson's recurring failure to unravel a one-three-one zone played parts in the first half deficit...
...turn out to be in vain--of assuring the passage of a treaty which those truly concerned with disarmament on the Left attack as much too limited in scope. It is now of such overriding symbolic importance, however, that its defeat in the Senate would seem to me to unravel what little fabric of international comity there exists, and possibly to force the Chinese and the Soviet Union back together again, for we are not the only ones who can play the "China card." I am in favor of a draft, or at the very least registration for the draft...