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...from industry and pushing up the salaries of those who remain. "Scientists and engineers are just not interested in working on a new type of washing machine," says Herman Sheets, research chief at General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division. While washers may seem mundane to many, they are nonetheless vital to the sort of economy that has made the U.S. prosperous. "We are a world power," says University of Chicago Economist Yale Brozen, "as much because of our civilian productivity as because of our arsenal of guided missiles and atom bombs...
...clarity of his multiple lives. There is Herbert the dreaming farmboy on the moors of Yorkshire, Captain Read, M.C., D.S.O., an infantry captain in the Green Howards, and Herbert Read, the philosopher, poet and esthetician. Finally, because of his passionate belief that where a man lives is a vital part of man's true history, he traces his roots in the past of Yorkshire's lonely and beautiful North Riding, and describes the people who lived on its moors-farmers, millers, poets, soldiers, and more than one notable parson like Laurence Sterne. In effect, he says...
...well and good, says Marty. The beliefs of Protestant churches have, in the U.S., formed the basis for a "consensus religion," which now has lost its impact: it is like faded wallpaper, visible everywhere but hardly noticed. Change is needed for the church to become once more a vital spiritual force...
...after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the womb. This is the thickest, most muscular part, and is also closest to other vital organs that may be damaged in the operation...
Adenine is an undistinguished-looking chemical with a molecule made of two ordinary carbon-nitrogen rings. But to biochemists, it is one of the keys of life. It takes part in the formation of a long list of vital substances, and it is one of the five "bases" that are built into DNA and RNA, the magic nucleic acids that control the reproduction and heredity of all living organisms. Since the first life probably appeared on earth when chemicals already dissolved in sea water formed a giant molecule that had the power to reproduce itself, it is likely that this...