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Suno Bergstrom, 66, and Bengt I. Samuelsson, 48, both professors of Chemistry at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm shared the award with John R. Vane, 55, a research director of a London science foundation...
...range is filled with a sweet silence; it is broken only by a thin whistle of wind in mesquite and the oddly haunting sound, a crumpling tinny flex of metal, that an Aermotor windmill vane makes randomly in the tremendous spaces. But out in the middle of nowhere the rancher will come upon an oil "location" that he has leased to drillers. The work is deafening, unclean and, of course, extremely profitable. Oilworkers seem weirdly surly and uncommunicative for this part of the country, like punk rockers, Ahab's harpooners, aliens. The chemical "slush" from the hole...
...discovery of any of the following items in Antiques 'n' Stuff: a carved ivory head of Samuel F.B. Morse; 20 matching miniature spoons; a slightly damaged print of all the U.S. Presidents up to 1900 as they might have looked strolling arm in arm; a weather vane in the shape of a wolf...
From President and Mrs. Reagan in the U.S., a Steuben glass bowl christened 'The Crusaders'! From the village of Doughton, bless 'em all, a sheet-iron weather vane for Highgrove! From the far-off land of Tonga, a bedspread, presented by-I want to get this name right-King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and his wife, Queen Mata'aho, and hand-knitted by the Queen herself; let's have a round of applause for them both! From the Sedgemoor district council in Somerset - how about this? - a ton of peat! A nickel-silvered...
...land soon found other uses. The militia, for example, held training exercises on the patch, with attendance mandatory for all able-bodied men unitl 1686. And, in the English fashion, elections were held in the open on the Common. One such electoral contest featured Winthrop and an opponent named Vane, squaring off for the title of chief magistrate. "The adherents," a chronicler reports, "gathered in force and excitement ran high so violence was feared. At the height of the tumult, the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, despite his 49 years and large bulk, climbed into...