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...discovered Torres Strait Islander artist and dancer Alick Tipoti. Through his award-winning black-and-white linocut prints, Tipoti has translated designs traditionally carved on dance apparatus and drums to museum walls in Washington and Dusseldorf. The three festivals he's attended have introduced him to a wider network of artistic influence. "We are the most western part of the Pacific, which is tied together through traditional designs," says the Thursday Island-born artist, who has traced Torres Strait motifs back to the New Zealand Maori via "the Solomon Islands, Palau and across to Hawaii...
...substance that has caused all this excitement was discovered in 1957 by Virologists Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann. Isaacs, who died of a nonmalignant brain tumor at age 45 in 1967, was investigating influenza viruses at London's National Institute for Medical Research. There he met Lindenmann, who had arrived from Switzerland in July 1956. Lindenmann, now head of experimental microbiology at the University of Zurich, stayed in London only a year. But it was time well spent. Over a cup of tea that August, the two scientists discovered a mutual fascination with a biological phenomenon known as viral interference...
Interferon is a large hormone-like protein produced by the cells of all vertebrate animals. It was discovered in 1957 in Britain by Virologists Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann during their investigation of a curious phenomenon: people are almost never infected by more than one virus at a time. Seeking an explanation, the researchers infected cells from chick embryos with influenza virus. What they found was a substance that protected the chick cells from both the flu and other viruses. Because it interfered with the infection process, it was dubbed interferon...
...Page One of the Sun and other London papers last week was the bizarre story of the disappearance of Mrs. Alick McKay, wife of a director of the News of the World. As police sought to establish whether she had been kidnaped, they were deluged with calls from clairvoyants and cranks. One anonymous letter concluded: "I will let Mrs. McKay go if the News of the World and the Sun publikly announce that they will not corupt our kids any more by printing all that filth...
...Leyland Motors Ltd., Britain's biggest truck and bus maker. Leyland's laconic Chairman Sir Henry Spurrier, 64, follows a simple creed. "We don't run risks," he snaps. "We run Leyland." Sir Henry introduced the new regime at Standard by easing out former Standard Boss Alick Dick, 46, the imaginative onetime boy wonder of the British auto industry; in as Dick's replacement went Lancashire-born Stanley Markland, 59, an old Leyland hand who started out as an apprentice...