Word: celling
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That was when St. Ronan, an Irish bishop consecrated by St. Patrick himself, founded Locronan. According to legend, St. Ronan spent his time in a hermit's cell, studied spiders as they spun their webs, and adapted their technique to the art of weaving, which soon brought prosperity to the village. St. Ronan, tradition has it, was driven out of town by a mob of angry shrews whose leader accused him of being a werewolf-she was afraid that the hermit was persuading her husband to become a monk. The saint left town walking barefoot across the rocky terrain...
...study of bioluminescence, documented his discovery (Living Light, Bioluminescence) that light emitted by certain organisms (fireflies, squid) indicates their growth and functioning; of a heart attack; in Woods Hole, Mass. In 1931, in collaboration with New York Banker Alfred Lee Loomis, Harvey invented the centrifuge microscope, which makes cell division observable by whirling the cells at a rate of 20,000 revolutions a minute...
Birrell spent the night in a one-man cell after supping on beans, rice and manioc flour, a far cry from the gourmet's cuisine that is his normal fare. Next morning he admitted the false-entry charges, then folded. Said Robbery and Theft Division Chief Fernando Ribeiro: "He was a broken man, broken, broken, broken." Debonairly dressed, but with sweaty brow and tremulous lips, Birrell cried: "I don't care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial...
More ingenious than simply poisoning the cancer cell was the idea that it might be fooled into accepting, instead of a normal food substance (metabolite), an analogue (close chemical kin) to fill the metabolite's place but yield no nourishment. First to use antimetabolites this way was Dr. Sidney Farber of Boston Children's Hospital and the Children's Cancer Research Foundation. Knowing that leukemic cells are avid for the vitamin folic acid, he began in 1947 to treat child victims of acute leukemia with analogues of folic acid. Lederle Laboratories sent Dr. Farber two, aminopterin...
...quick succession came the hormones ACTH and cortisone, which also produced brief remissions in acute leukemia (as in some other cancers of the blood and lymphatic system). Then came another antimetabolite. pioneered by Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal of Memorial Center: 6-mercaptopurine, which interferes with cell nutrition by supplying a counterfeit purine. Physicians treating acute leukemia now ring the changes on these, using one until it loses its effect, then switching to another, sometimes back to the first. No child victims of acute leukemia have yet been saved, but Dr. Farber can report a heartening gain. A dozen years...