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Died. Gwyn Griffin, 42, British novelist, whose An Operational Necessity, a grim wartime tale of moral choice and murder at sea, rides high on current bestseller lists; of a bloodstream infection; near Introdacqua, Italy...
...Alcohol is absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream. Its most pronounced physiological effects are on the brain. When the blood contains .05% ethyl alcohol, the result is depression of the uppermost level of the brain, compulsiveness and a loss of inhibitions: .10% can affect the lower, motor area of the brain, impairing control of the body: .20% may cause an individual to need help walking; .30% can make him fall into a stupor...
...infective core of a virus particle invades a cell, that cell is usually doomed; its biochemical factory will soon be taken over by the virus and begin making new virus particles or parts of them. But before this happens, some cells produce interferon and pass this on through the bloodstream. Thus forearmed, other cells can then ward off attacks by the next generation of virus particles...
...course straight. As for drugs, I am 17 years old and am looking forward to experiencing the psychedelic field. I am already tired of viewing objects from the same patterned angles and perspectives, that is, from bottom, top, sideways -I want to get inside things, in the mainstream, bloodstream-sightsee the system, so to speak. Don't put us down too fast -we merely want to explore countries that you have only sailed around...
...vein in the leg (see diagram). In order to lure the flukes out of their customary lairs in the intestinal veins, they give patients a single injection of tartar emetic. The flukes, which find the emetic as unpleasant as most human beings do, come scurrying out into the main bloodstream, and are shunted through the tubes. Since they are about half an inch long, they are stopped and trapped by the filter, while the blood passes through, unharmed...