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Twice a Nobel prizewinner (chemistry 1954, peace 1962), California Biochemist Linus Pauling has claimed a breakthrough in treatment of the common cold. His nonsecret: vitamin C, which was isolated in 1928. The vitamin-also called ascorbic acid-has never received its due, Dr. Pauling says, partly because the drug companies cannot make enough money out of it and partly because doctors generally prescribe doses just large enough to prevent scurvy. In a paperback, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman & Co.; $1.95), Pauling recommends a daily 250-to-10,000 milligrams to keep colds from being caught, plus...
...trained flatworms were minced and fed to untrained flatworms. In equally controversial tests, the latter apparently cannibalized the former's acquired knowledge, which is believed to have been contained in RNA molecules that were coded during training. As late as the mid-'60s, chemicals such as glutamic acid were thought to increase alertness in humans and even to boost IQ scores. Alas, the latest word from the lab seems to be that an intelligence pill is not around the corner...
When "Henry" knocked the second time, he was invited in. "Does anyone have any acid?" he asked. When he was told there wasn't any he proceeded to draw...
...phone on Sunday. First as to homework, your reporter had access to Walter Sullivan's article in the N.Y. Times of Nov. 6, and he mentioned having seen it. Even a casual reading of this article would have avoided must of the errors. Secondly, a press release on formic acid dated Nov. 6 was on the AP and UP wires. Finally, an I.A.U. Circular was issued last week which contained the technical details of the formic acid discovery. Your reporter failed to read or failed to understand any of these...
...alcohol (not ethyl alcohol) has been found toward the galactic center. The group responsible for this discovery includes Carl A. Gottlieb and A. E. Lilley of Harvard and H. E. Radford of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Dr. Radford supervised the all-important measurements of the laboratory frequencies. The formic acid discovery was made by a group headed by B. Zuckerman of the University of Maryland and including Gottlieb and Radford...