Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many scientists had their doubts, one of them disdainfully calling the finding "misinterpreton." Recalls Microbiologist Samuel Baron, who worked with Isaacs in 1960: "It was too good to believe. Other inhibitors of viruses had been debunked, so they thought interferon was another false claim." Baron, from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, had his own doubts when he arrived in England to join Isaacs: "I remember saying to the technician, 'Let's see how this thing works.' It was so impressive that at the end of a week I was fully convinced of its potential. I rolled...
...Baron was one of the few to persevere. He and other interferon researchers had little to go on, for there was practically no interferon available to be studied. The chemical is produced only in minute quantities in living cells, and extracting it proved difficult and costly, liabilities that are only now beginning to be overcome. Also, though all vertebrate animals produce IF, it seems to be species specific, meaning that it works only in the type of animal that produces it. Monkey interferon works only in monkeys, mouse in mice and human in humans. Thus, unlike the insulin extracted from...
...Charlie Brown and his failures; of the passion Schroeder feels for Beethoven, only to be harassed by the love-sick Lucy (who in this production cries "Hooray for Barry Manilow" just to get a rise out of the budding pianist); of Snoopy's unending battle with the Red Baron. The small circle of friends grows up in these amusing vignettes, while an occasional moral dots the otherwise harmless script. There's not an undergraduate who in his youth didn't toss a few "good griefs" into the wind at a younger sibling...
...intervals during the play, the croupier passes the stolen chips to an accomplice, known as a baron, who masquerades as an ordinary player. At the Dieppe casino, barons cashed in $600,000 worth of purloined chips before the fraud was discovered; 23 croupiers were arrested there last September. Said one Dieppe employee: "The croupiers could have swiped the chandeliers from the casino if they had wanted...
...well-researched biography that is highly readable. Deeply caught up in Hancock's political life, he remains curiously non-political himself, declining to draw any parallels to modern trends or current poltics. But despite Fowler's reluctance to relate past to present, he leaves the impression that the Baron would have a thing or two to say today...