Professor Weedlemeyer sputtered in his eagerness, making large gestures with his hands. "Of course!" he shouted, his accent becoming thicker with his excitement. "It is lunacy to think only man will increase in his intelligence! Animals will too—ya, und insects! It will be a fierce competition for the earth be—man and the animals!" Jon Egan, science reporter and man of all work for the Carolina Bugle , yawned and searched vainly through littered pockets for a cigarette that wasn't there. He had