Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extended tropical sojourn appears to have generated other useful or once useful adaptations more frequently found in dark-skinned peoples. A hereditary blood condition known as the sickle-cell trait, which grants resistance to certain types of malaria, is only now beginning to wane among U.S. Negroes, who no longer have any need of it. The Negro's woolly black hair once provided insulation against the heat of the blazing tropical sun; his thick lips, by exposing more mucous membrane, may have increased the body's evaporative cooling powers in torrid climates; his characteristically long legs and lean...
Most important, the red-cell units will include up to 1,000 rare types, a call for which often touches off a transcontinental alarm to round up donors. Dr. Allen points to a corkboard listing the rarest of the 500 types now in stock. A Philadelphia doctor recently phoned the center and asked, not too hopefully, whether it could find donors with an extremely rare blood type. "I don't know about donors," replied the center's duty officer. "Just tell me how many units you want." The doctor wanted eight. He got them...
Point Blank is one of those forgettable movies in which only the settings change-the violence remains the same. The first setting is deserted Alcatraz, where Lee Marvin lies in a cell, badly wounded and flashbacking like mad. Lee, his wife (Sharon Acker) and a friend have just hijacked a helicopter load of cash that some criminal syndicate had tried to deliver, for obscure reasons, to the abandoned prison. Friend and wife, however, have cut Lee out of the deal by pumping him full of lead -but not enough lead, apparently, to interfere with his swimming to the mainland...
...From his cell, Debray denies all charges of active involvement, although he admits that as "an intellectual revolutionary" and a "neo-Marxist" he is "morally committed to the guerrilla cause." His trial, long delayed while the military gathered evidence, is now scheduled to begin early in September. It may drag on throughout the fall, but Debray says he already knows what the outcome will be: "I believe they will give me the maximum-30 years...
Forearmed Cells. Interferon is a protein discovered ten years ago in Britain. Many if not all of the body's cells can make it. When the infective core of a virus particle invades a cell, that cell is usually doomed; its biochemical factory will soon be taken over by the virus and begin making new virus particles or parts of them. But before this happens, some cells produce interferon and pass this on through the bloodstream. Thus forearmed, other cells can then ward off attacks by the next generation of virus particles...