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Molecular biologist Mark Hildebrand (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California, United States) is a member of a collaborative project trying to develop genetically engineered micro/nanodevices (also called GEMs).
It is attested in Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin religious and magical texts preserved on clay tablets, papyrus, parchment, gems, and strips of metal thousands of years old.
Look for the many other gems in the collection, in particular the wrinkled features of the Berlin Green Head, the restored temple courtyard of King Sahu-Re, a mummy and sarcophagi, and charming blue faience funerary objects in the form of animals.
Which is when they surged forward to catch whatever gems might usher forth from his lips and when a 50-ish woman waiting for a table got hit in the head by a camera.
Reading these gems in the new posthumous selection, One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko , I found myself wondering: Why doesn't anyone write a newspaper column this good anymore?