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...coatless inner part of the virus is essentially a molecule of nucleic acid, but inside the factory it behaves like an immensely efficient agent taking over a captured industry. It seems to know where the production schedules and blueprints are-and it throws them away. In their place, it issues orders for the production of nothing but hundreds or thousands of copies of itself, plus an equal number of protein coats to fit. The cell-factory rushes to fill the massive order. It becomes strewn with waste materials. The strain tells. About the time the cell fills the invader...
Like his famed predecessor, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bennett is a liberal with a somewhat acid view of the goodness of man. The son of a Presbyterian pastor in Morristown, N.J., he pointed for the ministry as an undergraduate at Williams, went on to Oxford for an A.B. in theology and to Union for his bachelor of divinity degree. He has spent his whole career teaching in seminaries, and has made "idolatrous" Communism his major study. In 1948 he published (and last year updated) the book for which he is best known: Christianity and Communism. He co-edits the liberal religious biweekly...
...lead to good preliminary evaluations of equipment. Remember that frequency response accuracies are useful but that low distortion is vital. Look for the lowest possible distortion in all your components (under 1% total IM and harmonic is considered good today). And above all, use your ears as the final acid test of any component, and especially when contemplating purchase of a speaker...
Isoniazid is a pill made from two ingredients: a form of isonicotinic acid, plus hydrazine, a liquid that has also been used for rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half...
...directed at "the thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under the supervision of a former professor of dermatology...