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Drew Weinstein, Ron Handel and Sarah Rabkin--Strange Brew...
Heidi Conover--Strange Brew...
Since the price of coffee began percolating out of control ($1.25 to $4-plus per retail pound in 22 months) some of the nation's favorite brew has become really hot. According to an FBI spokesman, "hijackers like to keep up with the times; our biggest headache now is coffee." The FBI knows of 15 hijackings, in which the total take was $1,728,000 worth of beans. All this black (or, if you prefer, cream and sugar) market activity occurred in the Port of New York, which handles nearly half the 2.6 billion pounds of beans...
Hirumi concocted a novel brew that contained cells from the lung fluid of cows and serum from fetal calves. In effect, the formula fooled the parasite into acting as if it were in a natural host. Yet trypanosomes are exasperatingly fickle creatures. After they invade humans or cattle, they show a chameleon-like ability to change their protein coatings, whose molecular structure serves as a precise signal to the host's immune system for the production of specific antibodies against the invaders. As the immune system begins mustering appropriately shaped antibodies against the trypanosomes, the parasites change their coats...
Judy Kaplan-Strange Brew...