Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ball announced the discovery on Friday of formic acid and ethyl alcohol-organic compounds Ball called "much more complex than any other molecules discovered in space...
Organic compounds are present in all living substances. Formic acid is contained in the urine, blood, and perspiration of humans...
Emergencies, Cases for the Cambridge City Hospital: lacerations, overdose of downers, acid cut with strychnine. Talking down kids on bad trips. Getting lawyers for kids, assisting the kids in court, getting up bail from among their friends...
Terrestrial life exists in many unexpected places. One variety of tiny plant survives in hot sulfuric acid; others flourish at 9°F. below zero. One species of algae grows only among the hairs of the three-toed sloth; another rides the backs of turtles. Now it appears that even clouds floating through the earth's atmosphere provide a precarious home for tiny organisms. Microbiologist Bruce Parker of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, writing in Natural History, argues that tiny animals and plants are feeding, growing and even reproducing high...
...players are scoured by suffering and torture; the acid of prison life burnishes them to saintliness, and they become Dostoevsky's "holy fools of God." A few others become the minions of hell and savage their brothers for a bread crumb. But the bulk of men remain the same, irretrievably wedded to their petty vices and their tepid virtues. For them, the prison camp is a change in milieu, not a change in character. Such is the breadth and depth of Solzhenitsyn's vision that he chooses to be the voice of these voiceless and mediocre many. Without...