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...Death."LSD (D-lysergic acid diethylamide) has so far proved no cure for any disease. The overriding interest of both scientists and pseudo scientists in LSD (and, to a lesser extent, in the other hallucinogens) is in its effects on the mind. And these are so fantastic that most experimenters insist words are not the right medium for describing them, but they have devised no better tool for communication...
...they stand with a foot in each world. A leader like Nehru urged, on the one hand, rapid industrialization, and on the other revered the Gandhian ideal of small, self-sufficient communities dedicated to hand spinning. The non-Western personality is in fact schizophrenic, writes Sinai; and in an acid aside, he suggests that psychiatrists might be more useful in the new nations than economists...
...from Cambridge to the University of London. Wherever he went, he persisted in self-experimentation. He had the blood supply to his arm shut off with a tourniquet until the arm was paralyzed, then watched another man move it with an electric current. To upset his body's acid-alkali balance, he drank ammonium chloride and panted for days afterward. To prove that "sunstroke" (properly, heat stroke) is not caused directly by the sun's rays, but by the overheating of the brain and spinal cord, he sat in Egypt's broiling sun for two hours, periodically...
...cell has taken almost 25 years and has occupied virtually all of his professional attention. Working independently, he and Feodor Lynen, the co-winner of the prize and director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry in Munich, have puzzled out the 36-step process by which acetic acid is transformed into Cholesterol. Cholesterol is known to be the raw material of the sex hormones; some researchers believe that excess cholesterol causes heart disease. While this theory has not been confirmed, the Nobel Committee observed in its citation that "The therapy against circulatory diseases and related disturbances ... will...
Segal felt China's recent nuclear explosion was a sign that the balance of power was changing in the world. "Even the New York Times," he said with acid voice, is preparing its readers for the cataclysm of Chinese admission...