Word: acidic
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Brave words?and in a sense, incredibly true. On that late winter day in 1953, the two unknown scientists had finally worked out the double-helical shape of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. In DNA's famed spiral-staircase structure are hidden the mysteries of heredity, of growth, of disease and aging?and in higher creatures like man, perhaps intelligence and memory. As the basic ingredient of the genes in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is truly the master molecule of life...
Scientists suspected that DNA had a helper, a single-stranded chemical first cousin called ribonucleic acid (RNA). Most of the cell's RNA is found in ribosomes. These are globular bodies in the material outside the cell's nucleus that seem to be highly active centers of protein synthesis. But if this ribosomal RNA played a role in protein making, how did it obtain and execute the instructions from the master molecule DNA inside the nucleus...
...National Institutes of Health, to crack the code itself. That same year Nirenberg had succeeded in building up short, synthetic strands of RNA out of only one type of base. Invariably, this artificial RNA induced the manufacture of chains of proteins consisting of only one type of amino acid, phenylalanine. The conclusion was inescapable: in the genetic code, Nirenberg's triplet had to signify phenylalanine...
...most daring scrutinizers is Father Hans Kűng, 43, a Swiss-born professor of theology at Tubingen University in West Germany. An acid-penned theological nonconformist, Kűng does more than re-examine the doctrine; he is the first important Catholic theologian to come right out and deny it. The Vatican is understandably unhappy, and for two months the sounds of its displeasure have thundered around Kűng's head; he has been under attack from the hierarchies of Germany, Italy and France. This week, with the American publication of his blunt book Infallible? An Inquiry...
There are some people who will not drop acid. Because it is too much. Too much of a trip. Of those who will drop it, there are some who are hungry for it . . . these people are on a quest. If you are one of these people you know this about yourself. . . . When you come to acid, you come with the heat of a man given a single last chance. . . . You are without spirituality. So you smother your senses in the garbage of color, light and sound. Here, among the infant molecules of thought, you are subjected to the cool heat...