LEAPING FORWARD

A STORY TODAY ABOUT A 500 MILLION YEAR LEAP IN MAMMALIAN HORMONAL DEVELOPMENT BROUGHT TO MIND THE "SPRINGING EXECUTORY INTEREST" THAT LAW PROFESSOR EMERITUS J. CLAY SMITH DRAMATIZED SO VIVIDLY AT HOWARD; EVEN AS IT EVOKED THE 'PROLEPTIC LEAP' OF WHICH SHAKESPEARE WROTE IN 'MACBETH,' WHICH  OUR GREAT BLOCK CLASS TEACHER, JAMES BROOKS, TAUGHT US IN THE 8TH GRADE AT STEGER JR. HIGH IN ROCK HILL, MISSOURI. FUNNY HOW THINGS, SO DISSIMILAR, CAN MELD IN ONE'S MIND...http://www.potw.org/archive/potw283.html