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...would be clipped; at the end of June, its reserves stood at $3.6 billion, of which $2.3 billion was in foreign exchange, most of it in dollars, and a mere $800 million in gold. By the end of September, its reserves had risen to $5 billion and, though no breakdown is yet available, the dollar-to-gold ratio is estimated to be even larger. Another country that would be hurt by a dollar devaluation is Canada. In its $5 billion reserve it holds only $800 million in gold and $3.5 billion in currency, mostly U.S. dollars...
...could have been worked out to Emily's benefit if Sue could have answered Emily's maternal needs and Austin her paternal needs. But the couple, frightened and confused by their role, withdrew from her. Unable to bear the consummation of their marriage in 1856, Emily had her first breakdown...
...breakdown was the beginning of her retirement from the world. Her increasing reclusiveness brought increasing productivity, and in the early 1860's her talents crested. In 1862 she wrote three hundred sixty-six poems. The deaths of her nephew Gilbert at nine years old, her father, and then her mother dragged Emily into profound depressions, but never the psychotic depths she experienced between 1857 and 1864. It is known that she had a lover in 1883 when she was fifty-three; it seems that he made sexual overtures to her, and she, being unable to respond, lost all possibility...
...first discovery, published in 1955, was the means by which the hormone adrenaline regulates the breakdown of carbohydrates stored in the liver. He learned that adrenaline works by activating the enzyme phosphorylase. a chemical catalyst that triggers the release of energy-producing glucose. This explains how the body produces additional energy under stress. Then, in 1958, Sutherland isolated a previously unknown chemical called cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate, or cyclic AMP, that functions in an intermediary role in many hormonal processes...
...apply equally to everyone. He has ticketed the cars of superior court judges, Governor William Stratton and even Mayor Daley. Once, Muller ticketed his own car which had been illegally parked by a friend. "It's on the level of traffic corruption where you first get your breakdown in law-and-order," says the 52-year-old cop. "If someone can fix a parking ticket with a cop or a judge or a politician, it won't be long before everything else is being fixed all the way to who runs for President of the country...