An archean suture zone in the Tobacco Root Mountains? (1984) Evolution of Archean Continental Crust, SW Montana (1985)

The Lake Plateau area of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana were mapped and geochemically sampled. The allochthonous nature of the Stillwater Complex was interpreted as a Cordilleran-style continental margin. The metamorphic and tectonic history of the Beartooth Mountains was addressed. The Archean geology of the Spanish Peaks area, northern Madison Range was addressed. A voluminous granulite terrain of supracrustal origin was identified, as well as a heretofore unknown Archean batholithic complex. Mapping, petrologic, and geochemical investigations of the Blacktail Mountains, on the western margin of the Wyoming Province, are completed. Mapping at a scale of 1:24000 in the Archean rocks of the Gravelly Range is near completion. This sequence is dominantly of stable-platform origin. Samples were collected for geothermometric/barometric analysis and for U-Pb zircon age dating. The analyses provide the basis for additional geochemical and geochronologic studies. A model for the tectonic and geochemical evolution of the Archean basement of SW Montana is presented

Auger spectroscopy of stratospheric particles : the influence of aerosols on interplanetary dust

Particle collections from the stratosphere via either the JSC Curatorial Program or the U2 Program (NASA Ames) occur between 16km and 19km altitude and are usually part of ongoing experiments to measure parameters related to the aerosol layer. Fine-grained aerosols (<0.1µm) occur in the stratosphere up to 35km altitude and are concentrated between 15km and 25km altitude[1]. All interplanetary dust particles (IDP's) from these stratospheric collections must pass through this aerosol layer before reaching the collection altitude. The major compounds in this aerosol layer are sulfur rich particulates (<0.1µm) and gases and include H2S04, OCS, S02 and CS2 [2].In order to assess possible surface reactions of interplanetary dust particles (IDP's) with ambient aerosols in the stratosphere, we have initiated a Surface Auger Microprobe (SAM) and electron microscope study of selected particles from the JSC Cosmic Dust Collection

Ego Te Baptizo : The Typology of Baptism in Moby-Dick

This paper examines baptismal imagery and themes in Herman Melville\u27s Moby-Dick through the ancient exegetical practice of typology. This method of reading sees events, characters, and rituals as types or foreshadows of Christ\u27s life, linking apparently disparate stories as an interdependent group. Melville simultaneously draws upon the typological associations of baptism and subverts them. Baptism appears in the novel as the washing away of sins, initiation into a new identity and community, second birth, initiation into mysteries, consecration for a holy purpose, and death and resurrection. However, Melville\u27s baptisms are reversed, incomplete, or uncertain. The characters are not baptized into Christian community and spiritual life, but into a savage, pagan identity as whalemen; what is consecrated is not dedicated to holiness, but to violence and bloodshed; and death does not lead to resurrection, but madness, insoluble ambiguity, and final destruction. Ultimately, Moby-Dick is a story of failed baptism, the very means of salvation overcome by demonic power; as Ahab says, Baptizo ... in nomine diabolo

Flawed and Beloved: The Spiritual Teachers of Romola and George Eliot

Victorian novelist George Eliot presents a paradox: her writings seem highly religious and even specifically Christian, but she was an atheist who firmly rejected her Christian upbringing. In this paper, I examine Eliot’s attitude toward religion in the light of her novel Romola. Romola’s conflicted relationship with her mentor, Savonarola, presents a mirror image of Eliot’s own relationship with Christianity. In both cases, a profound message of duty, altruism, and self-sacrifice is presented by a messenger who is flawed by false and contradictory teachings and failure to live up to his own ideals. Romola and Eliot must learn to distinguish between valuable truth and superstitious or pernicious falsehood, and even more importantly, they must learn to accept and love their teachers as they are—a mere mortal man, a mere human institution, not to be reverenced as divine and utterly rejected when shown to be less than perfect, but to be respected for their genuine good and forgiven for their flaws. The virtue of sympathy, so characteristic of Eliot and central to her thought, thus has its place not only in relations with individuals, but also explains her attitude toward Christianity as a whole

Federal Income Tax-Definition of Collapsible Corporation

In 1948 petitioner and several other taxpayers, who had previously been active in constructing homes, formed two corporations to build apartment houses. As a result of decreases in the price of building materials and savings on labor and architectural costs, each corporation was left, after completion of construction, with borrowed funds which exceeded costs of construction. In the year following completion of construction the taxpayers distributed the excess borrowed funds of the two corporations and then sold their stock in each at a substantial profit. Petitioner reported, his receipts from the distribution of the loan funds and the profit on the sale of his stock as long term capital gain. The Tax Court, one judge dissenting, upheld the Commissioner\u27s assertion that these were collapsible corporations under section 117(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 and that taxpayer\u27s gains were therefore ordinary income. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the Tax Court\u27s opinion, holding that section 117(m) applies to the collapse of a corporation regardless of whether a shareholder might have received capital gains treatment on his receipts if he were doing business as an individual proprietorship. On certiorari, held, affirmed, one Justice dissenting. Congress, in enacting section 117(m), intended to define what it believed to be a tax avoidance device rather than leave the question of the presence of tax avoidance to the courts to be determined on the facts of each case; thus the provision applies to all corporations falling within its definition, regardless of what tax consequences might have resulted had another form of enterprise been used. Braunstein v. Commissioner, 374 U.S. 65 (1963)

Sales-Implied Warranty-Merchantable Quality of Tobacco Products

Decedent\u27s widow and the administrator of his estate brought a consolidated suit against the American Tobacco Company on six theories of liability for the death of decedent, allegedly caused by lung cancer purportedly contracted from the smoking of defendant\u27s cigarettes. At the close of plaintiff\u27s evidence, the district court directed a verdict for defendant on all counts except those of implied warranty and negligence. The jury determined that, although defendant\u27s cigarettes were the cause of decedent\u27s lung cancer and resultant death, defendant had no means of knowing that the cigarettes would cause cancer. On appeal of the implied warranty charge to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, held, affirmed, one judge dissenting. Defendant cannot be held liable for consequences which were not foreseeable through the use of ordinary human skill and foresight. Green v. American Tobacco Co., 304 F.2d 70 (5th Cir. 1962)

Mitochondria Tether Protein Trash to Rejuvenate Cellular Environments

Protein damage segregates asymmetrically in dividing yeast cells, rejuvenating daughters at the expense of mother cells. Zhou et al. now show that newly synthesized proteins are particularly prone to aggregation and describe a mechanism that tethers aggregated proteins to mitochondria. This association constrains aggregate mobility, effectively retaining and sorting toxic aggregates away from younger cells