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When harmful material enters the body of a guinea pig, he said, the animal secretes at least two chemical antibodies, called gamma-1 and gamma-2. The gamma-2 molecule acts rapidly to attach itself to the walls of tumor cells. and with the aid of chemicals in the blood it breaks open the cell membrane, often killing the cancer...
...result, the cells become covered with thousands of gamma-1 molecules. Thus the other, more effective gamma-2 antibodies can find no place to attach themselves and are totally unable to act. With their coating of inactive gamma-1 antibodies, cancer cells feed, grow and spread...
They come in all sizes and shapes. Visors attach to the head via headbands or ribbons. Short versions just cover the eyes; full-face ones reach the mouth. Women like them because they keep hair in place, protect face from the sun and prying eyes. In fact, for the girl with a great figure but only passable face, they are an unbeatable combination. Let the men whistle: all they will see is the shadow of her smile...
...considers it "a kind of dialogue. I am acutely aware of the expressions on the students' faces. A puzzled look stops me short." Facts, he argues, are "just raw material for understanding basic relationships, and the whole job of teaching is to weave a fabric of relationships and to attach this at so many points to the student's life that it becomes a part...
...least, reasoned two Washington-based Russian military attachés after reading reports on what its developer calls "the world's most accurate unguided rocket." Though they could easily have bought a Gyrojet in the capital, they showed up for some reason at a gun shop in San Jose, Calif., last week. "They spoke very good English," recalled Dealer Frank Schilling. "You'd never have taken them for a couple of those umphing Russians...