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When the Harvard Salt Water Club takes to the sea this spring its target will be no less than blue sharks. The reason for the big game effort is to provide rare shark bile for research in bio-chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSWC Will Hunt Sharks for Research | 1/27/1960 | See Source »

Barium X rays had shown that the girls, joined for 5 in. down the middle of their chests and abdomens, had separate digestive tracts. Radiopaque dyes, injected into the bloodstream, had shown that each had two kidneys, and separate bile ducts. But blood was crossing the bridge between the twins. The important question: How much? Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Separation Surgery | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...alleged stomach acid rot a pocket handkerchiei, 2) elderly couples kissing while an announcement reassured the lovers that a special cleanser would keep their dentures pure, 3) corns the size of pumpkins pried out of plaster toes that could belong to the Colossus of Rhodes, 4) alleged liver bile dissolving a dreadful accumulation of fatty particles. Many a broadcaster is beginning to worry about such tasteless commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tearing the Tissue | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Court of Appeals. After an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ordered further hearings, the FTC tried again in 1956. The pills, compounded chiefly of podophyllin (resin of dried root of the mayapple plant) and aloes (dried juice of the aloe plant), still do not stimulate liver bile, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Word | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...solely by heretic helmsmen?' 3) A Catholic educator will demand a look-see at the 566 'Who am I?' questions used in screening the fledgling spacemen. Were those questions slanted to put a Catholic ... in a poor light? 4) Inevitably some aspiring politico will stir our bile to a boil by observing that a space team without a Catholic is like an All-American team without a Notre Dame player: serves us right if the Commies beat us to the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Catholics in Space? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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