Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biological Time Bombs. Each reproductive cell (of plants, animals or men) contains submicroscopic particles (genes) which pass hereditary characteristics from one generation to another. When a gene is altered or damaged, a "mutation" or sudden change results. If the mutation is "dominant," it affects the next generation...
...what makes a normal cell malignant? Most researchers think the answer will be found in cell metabolism. A malignant cell, some now think, may be just a normal cell with a peculiar digestion. Exploring one phase of this theory, a team of Harvard and M.I.T. scientists used radioactive zinc to study malignant leukemia, an incurable, cancerlike disease of the white blood cells. They found that malignant white cells have much less zinc than normal cells...
Their conclusion: lack of zinc (necessary for normal cell growth) probably accounts for some of the abnormal behavior of cells in leukemia. Their discovery may eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...
...target was Episcopal Traveler Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the U.S.'s oldest religious journal, The Churchman, which frequently has hard words for Roman Catholics and soft ones for friends of Russia. Full of news and views after his Yugoslav tour, which included a visit to the prison cell of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, Dr. Shipler stated flatly that he found no evidence of suppression of religious activity there.* Still, he "doubted very much" that Yugoslav clergymen could safely attack the Government from the pulpit...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac in prison (TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), said: "We assert emphatically that reports of mistreatment of Stepinac were false and provocative. ... He is in good health and there are no restrictions on his religious liberty. ... He says Mass daily in a chapel next to his cell...