Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transoceanic cables that can compete handily with space satellites. Fiber-optic links are allowing far-flung corporations to install networks of private video hookups and connect office buildings into a new kind of "optical city." Optical technology is providing sensitive nerve endings for devices like smoke detectors and blood analyzers. Meanwhile, scientists in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan are pushing hard toward a still much-in-the-future optical computer that uses photons rather than electrons for number-crunching efficiency. The massively powerful optical brain may be the only means to achieve the immense computing capacity needed for President...
...news stories and the televised rhetoric about the military and economic assistance, people are living or dying, eating or starving because of decisions made in air-conditioned offices in Washington, D.C. The Vietnam veterans saw the costs of U.S. policies in the most extremely vivid tabulation possible--in blood and lives...
...addition to its benefits, AZT can cause substantial side effects, such as severe headaches and anemia, which results from the supression of blood cell production in the bone marrow. The long-term effects of AZT are unknown...
...drug, which is a growth hormone, stimulates the development of special white blood cells that fight the cancerous tumors. Interleukin 2 has been the subject of experiments since...
...researchers remove cancer cells from the patients' body and culture them with the drug for two to three weeks. The resulting mixture of cancer cells and white blood cells, called T-lymphocytes, is then injected into the patient...