Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polemicist's passion to the dangers of environmental pollution. "The new technological man," says Commoner, "carries strontium 90 in his bones, iodine 131 in his thyroid, DDT in his fat and asbestos in his lungs. There is now simply not enough air, water and soil on earth to absorb man-made poisons without effect. If we continue in our reckless way, this planet before long will become an unsuitable place for human habitation." At Washington University, Commoner now heads the first of a series of environmental health institutes being established at major campuses by the U.S. Public Health Service...
NASA's own package of post-Apollo programs, which includes additional lunar flights, orbital space stations and a series of unmanned planetary probes, would, by the agency's estimate, absorb between one-half of 1% and 1% of the gross national product every year for ten years. In the present $900 billion U.S. economy, the price would range from $4.5 billion to $9 billion a year. Though the total would be considerably smaller than the budget for defense (now $79 billion) or the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now $58 billion), it would run considerably higher than...
Such stereotyped prescribing is extremely unsound, says Pharmacologist Sumner Kalman of Stanford University. "There is no average man who always needs a particular dose of this or that drug on a certain daily schedule," Dr. Kalman notes. Even patients who are identical in sex and size do not absorb a drug into the bloodstream at the same rate. Their systems do not metabolize the drug at the same rate. Moreover, their reactions to a drug may range all the way from nil to collapse and sudden death as a result of severe allergic shock. "The fate of a drug...
...study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design." Unfortunately or fortunately for him, Oxford has an amazing ability to absorb the most outspoken of the outspoken. Balliol especially has an insidious way of inculcating the quality that is for Magaziner's (and my) generation the least understood and least valued of virtues-humility...
...also interferes with the reproductive cycle. Adult fish, for example, are able to tolerate relatively high levels of DDT. The fish embryo, on the other hand, dies almost immediately when it begins to absorb the pesticide through the fatty yolk sac. In birds, DDT kills off the young by interfering with the female's egg-laying process. Though the exact chemistry is still obscure, the pesticide apparently sends the mother bird's liver into a frenzy of enzyme production. The excess enzymes break down such steroids as estrogen that are essential to the manufacture of calcium. Lacking adequate...