Science: Voices

"We have been together 50 years," said a voice. "Fifty years of invention and achievement. We have shared defeat and success, discouragement and triumph. You have in that time made me a universal messenger of happiness and education to rich and poor. This is my 50th birthday and I have a favor to ask. I want to hear again from your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary...

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