Word: acidizing
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...task was formidable. Hidden in the chromosomes, genes are basically sections of an extremely complex molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Twisted together like a spiral staircase, or double helix, the twin strands of the DNA molecule are linked by "steps" composed of pairs of mutually attracting chemicals, or bases, called nucleotides. DNA contains only four different kinds of nucleotides, but they can be arranged in an endless variety of complex sequences. Each complete sequence-some including thousands of steps on the molecular staircase-is a single gene containing a coded message of heredity. With that message, the gene can order...
...Fifth Beatle and that time when Phil Spector made them stop the airplane and let him off because he knew-Spector knew!-it was going to crash. And it has been a year and a half since the publication-on the same day!!!-of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang, and that's a lot of low profile for the wunderkind of the New Journalism...
...delicate are relationships between the sects that marching slogans had to be approved before the procession started out. All of them were about as inoffensive as LONG LIVE MOTHER INDIA. Midway through the parade, however, a few marchers began to shout scurrilous slogans calling Moslems thieves. Soon stones, acid-filled light bulbs and Molotov cocktails began flying, though nobody is certain who started the barrage. A force of 600 policemen firing tear gas and then bullets were unable to keep the fighting from spreading...
...three main defoliants, each cheerily known by the color of the band on its container, do their job with convincing efficiency. "Blue" contains arsenic and burns the juices out of narrow-leaf grasses and rice. "White," a mixture of a persistent chemical called Picloram and 2,4-di-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, causes leaves to shower from trees within weeks. Strongest and most heavily used is "Orange," a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-tri-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, whose dangers were widely publicized last winter in a New Yorker article by Thomas Whiteside. Last month...
MISS ATKINS' story has a little more substance to it, although it too merely touches on the many topics that must be sorted out if acid crimes are to be understood and prevented in the future. She tells, in a pathetically disjointed monologue, about her unhappy childhood (broken, alcoholic home): her extensive and sad sex life; her LSD experiences; her initiation into the Manson commune; her participation in the killing of actress Sharon Tate and her four house guests, and, a week later, in the "Copy Cat Murders" of a wealthy grocer and his wife...