Word: biochem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to tell them to look at me," he says. Riesman "drifted into law school" after majoring in biochem, because he didn't like science and wanted to stay in Cambridge. He really wanted to be a professor, perhaps because his father taught in a medical school. "But I felt inadequate compared to him. Law was something a person of normal intelligence could do." Riesman went on to become Louis Brandeis's law clerk before starting teaching at the University of Buffalo...
...coronary arteries with slushy, fatty deposits is the greatest killer in the U.S., where it claims 500,000 lives a year, twice as many as cancer. The death rate from prime-of-life heart attacks goes up, roughly, with the concentration of fats in the blood. Most biochem ists divide these circulating fatty substances into four groups: cholesterol, fatty acids, phospholipids, and triglycerides, some of them "free," some of them combined with proteins or with one another...