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Ardrey contends that as man's brain grew, its new potential was vetoed for untold generations by the demands of the hunting society, a social structure so stable that it persisted-by Ardrey's reckoning, at least-for 15 million years. The hunting group needed not only leaders but also followers-and more followers than leaders. "I find no other persuasive explanation," writes Ardrey, "for the failure of the hominid line, through such an expanse of evolutionary time, to do anything much but survive...
...aware of my unity with all the people who have ever suffered, from the victims of petty lies to those killed by untold wars, persecutions and centuries of mistrust and hate. But simultaneously and paradoxically I understood quite vividly that life triumphs over all this misery even though it cannot erase it. Life is indeed "stronger than death"-not just in the religious sense, but quite literally stronger than death's ultimate absurdity. I was aware of smiling and crying at once. An immense resignation and peace flooded my entire being...
...months ago, mercury pollution was thought to be a problem confined mainly to the Great Lakes region. It has since turned up in 33 states. Because millions of pounds of the lethal metal have been dumped into the nation's waterways in the past 20 years, tainting untold numbers of fish, officials in ten states have closed down some commercial fisheries. Public Health workers in 16 states have warned residents against eating fish or fowl from suspect waterways. At least one family, the Hucklebys of Alamogordo, N. Mex., has been seriously poisoned after eating food contaminated with mercury...
...nucleotides, but they can be arranged in an endless variety of complex sequences. Each complete sequence-some including thousands of steps on the molecular staircase-is a single gene containing a coded message of heredity. With that message, the gene can order the cell to produce one of the untold number of proteins out of which all living organisms are made...
...Fiascoes. The crowning debacle, and the funniest bit in the book, was Mailer and Breslin's appearance on their own TV show. It cost them $3,400 and untold votes. For starters, Mailer insisted on a live production with no rehearsal and no notes. To add to the studio men's panic at such conditions, he slipped out for a few drinks ten minutes before air time. During the broadcast, Breslin forgot the punch line to an otherwise effective speech. Then Mailer, contrary to instructions, leaped out of his seat and began to roam the set while...