Word: acidizing
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...toting bank robber in California ordered everyone to "Move!" Customer Linnia Victorine slipped on a carpet and badly sprained her neck; she was awarded $5,000. Payments have ranged from a few dollars to $350,000 for a series of operations on a four-year-old New York boy; acid had been thrown in the child's face by a deranged neighbor...
...year of testing, for instance, Davison found that when he subjected his hypothetical cell to disturbances -the mathematical equivalent of a dose of cosmic rays, say, or a virus-it usually died. Sometimes, however, the disturbances affected the chemical reactions involved in the synthesis of messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid), which carries instructions from DNA, the master molecule of heredity, to the cell's protein-producing machinery. Under these conditions, the cell began to grow wildly, used up energy at an enormous rate and displayed all the earmarks of cancer...
...archives the complete folders are kept in acid-free, nearly airtight boxes, safe from dust and pollution though prey to heat and humidity...
...regularly, since Austin's 28 clubs and bars often hire as many as three bands a weekend. Says Townsend Miller, country-music columnist of the Austin American-Statesman: "Austin is country gone berserk." The music is country picking and basic bluegrass, leavened with rock and lightly glazed with acid...
...Carnaby Street dandy. His guitar was a throbbing phallic extension that he would caress, thrust at the audience, then set on fire at evening's end. The music was raw blues blasted out at maximum volume. Bursting on the rock scene in 1967 at the height of the acid-rock movement, Hendrix was a sensation: the first black superstar of mainstream rock. Three years later, he was dead at age 27 of an overdose of barbiturates...