Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prize was a jolly biochemist, Melvin Calvin, 50, of the University of California at Berkeley. Born in St. Paul and educated chiefly at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Calvin has long since earned the title: "Mr. Photosynthesis." Shortly after World War II, he began to use radioactive tracers, particularly carbon 14, and other recently developed tools to find out what happens to carbon dioxide when it tangles with chlorophyll in a living green plant cell. Step by painful step, Calvin and his large group of helpers followed CO 2 , tagged with carbon 14, through the intricate photosynthetic processes that start...
Woodward's synthesis of chlorophyll will help biologists understand how this compound enables green plants to perform photosynthesis--the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into simple sugars, starches, and other carbohydrates...
...chansons are about ordinary people who come to sad ends rather than bad ends. In Un Carbon Dansait, a slum-bred youngster dreams of being another Fred Astaire; Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares...
...patient reaches a point where the mere act of breathing takes all the energy that his muscles can get. (In the normal person, breathing takes only 2% to 3% of total energy.) He cannot even get rid of carbon dioxide, so he goes into acidosis. The biochemical picture becomes so distorted that neither heart nor arteries can function properly, and neither transfusions nor stimulating hormones take effect. Inflammation develops in the lungs or bronchi or both. Then the effort to cough, which requires a big reserve of muscle energy, makes a final demand that the patient cannot meet. He literally...
Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...