Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...penciling messages to each other on a roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually; in a faster ascent, the nitrogen would have come out of solution too rapidly, forming gas bubbles in the tissues or blood vessels, a painful and sometimes fatal consequence known as the "bends...
Oddly enough, it is this very flaw that enhances the credibility of Red Storm Rising. World War III, by most postulates, is not likely to involve a grand Tolstoyan sweep of personal valor. Arsenals and tactics might indeed be set in motion by the frailties of flesh-and-blood players, but once launched the lethal machines would take on a life of their own--almost like characters in a novel. That possibility, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth...
...time being, both vaccines will cost patients $110 for a course of three inoculations. After the development costs for Recombivax HB are recovered, however, it may become cheaper than the blood-based alternative. Reason: the prolific yeast will make it easier to mass-produce Recombivax...
...insisted that "there is one problem and only one in the world: to revive in people some sense of spiritual meaning." He also realized that such revivals are fraught with danger: "If the Germans are ready today to shed their blood for Hitler, you must understand that it is useless to blame Hitler. It is because Hitler gives the Germans something to be enthusiastic about." His vision of humanity revivified by passion and purpose was clouded by his view of history: "When the Spirit is aroused -- each time it is aroused -- it sheds blood...
...dress every once in a while. Louis L'Amour, western man, has followed the Duke's example. In his 95th novel, Last of the Breed, he focuses on Joseph Makatozi, a major in the U.S. Air Force. But Joe is not quite the contemporary he seems. Sioux and Cheyenne blood flows in his arteries ("My people were warriors once"), and when his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea, he becomes a Native American fugitive in a 20th century world, retracing the path his ancestors took across the strait to fresh hunting grounds. In pursuit are the current...