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... shone on the faces of the workers as they watched their own arrays of little glass dishes. Each one contained a drop of life. Eduardo moved his dishes, one after the other, under the lens of the microscope. ... in their skulls. Were they aware of the children growing in their wombs? Perhaps the cows hated what had been done to them, because they certainly rejected the...

... argument of the drama has a certain correspondence to the problem of the Book of Job.) The Oresteian trilogy on " ;The House of Atreus" is one of the supreme productions of all literature. ... with the two great themes of the retribution of crime and the inheritance of evil; and here again a parallel may be found between the assertions of t...

... in the winter, when there’s ice all over the pond. When they’re drove from their houses, in the winter, they take straight to their burrows in the bank, where they kin be sure of gittin’ their ... breathe. Then, the Injuns jest drive stakes down in front of the holes,––an’ there they have ’em, every one. They digs down into the burrows, an’ knocks Mr. Beaver an’ all the...

... as the molecular mass of the native peptide was consistent with the oxidation of the corresponding thiol groups, in order t o form the last missing disulfi de bridge. Furthermore, this is one of ... Na + -channel; scorpion. Most of the biochemical work performed with scorpion venom has been reported using scorpions of the family Buthidae, probably because they are d...

... regarding the role of the charged residues 14–16 of the a-helix in Kv1.2 channel interactions. On the other hand, it demon- strates the importance of positive charge of b-sheet in the interaction of ... the a-KTx6 toxin experimental structures (Fig. 5). They showed the basic characteristics of the a ⁄ b-fold of scorpion toxins. The main elements of the...

... and the books. The works of Henry James are there, and among them The Wings of the Dove. But this is not the same copy Bell picked up off my desk in the House of Stairs. She wanted to know the ... at the Uffizi, there is a painting by Bronzini of Lucrezia Panciatichi. This is the painting that Henry James describes in The Wings of the Dove. The woman in...

... and the Congress, not later 18 than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 19 a report containing a description of the results of the 20 study conducted under such subsection and the ... I N G ENERAL . The Secretary of Health and 6 Human Services shall enter into an arrangement with the 7 Institute of Medicine of the National Academies to con-8 duct...