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The NYT mentions the Orioles' losing record last season, leading the reader to wonder why they, rather than the World Series-winning Yankees, were tapped for this bit of diplomacy.
While it is true that films such as Blackboard Jungle , The Wild One , East of Eden , and Rebel Without a Cause tapped into the baby boom audience, the teen demographic was identified at Warner Bros. in the 1930s with the popular films starring the Dead End Kids.
The lead story in today's New York Times quotes Bill Clinton saying that the Republican budget passed yesterday by the House, which he intends to veto, "totally bumfuzzled " American voters on the question of whether Social Security funds would be tapped for current spending.
Whoever is tapped for the job, it still won't be the queen.
In terrestrial biological systems, energy is tapped via stepwise electron transport between electron donors and acceptors via an electron transport chain . Applying this principle universally, we should be able to detect the chemical components of electron transport chains or electron transport itself as a signature of life.