Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory an- swers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.
if one can argue for the early existence of a few largely molten planetoids with dimension of kilometers or tens of kilometers, one can quite as easily argue for very large numbers of such planetoids.
“Triplet, you rascal! You may laugh, but I don't want the gun. He may keep it, and do what he pleases with it, even to blowin' out his own thievious brains with it, for what I keer. He's welcome to the gun. You, Triplet!”
[A]rcheophytes are adapted to habitat types created early in history, including pastures, fields, and their edges; many of the neophytes, on the other hand, occur predominantly in ruderal, industrial, and urban habitats. […] [T]he proportion of neophytes is much higher in the flora of Berlin than in adjacent non-urban areas, but no difference was found for archeophytes.
