Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that protein molecules eventually used by the developing plant are rearranged during anabiosis into physiologically inactive crystals-a structure that scientists had suspected but never observed. Other photographs reveal the protective shift of tiny sacs of fluid called vacuoles, which are distributed through the cytoplasm of a young, active cell. During anabiosis, they line up in rows against the inner cell wall, probably to strengthen and insulate it against long periods of heat or cold, and to facilitate the rapid absorption of water when it becomes available...
...unlike most axed network heroes, he has a lifetime contract. Under a life sentence for killing a fellow inmate at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1962, Valachi now resides in a fourth-floor, 25-ft. by 50-ft. chamber known as "the penthouse," a District of Columbia jail cell that boasts a well-stocked refrigerator, television, and-as a chastening reminder of the 32 murders in which the Justice Department estimates he took part-an electric hot plate. The Government feels obliged to protect Valachi because in ratting on the syndicate before the Senate's McClellan Committee, he violated...
...battlefield in their war stretched from the kite-shaped six acre plot where they live, to the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Boston, to Beacon Hill and the corridors of power in Washington, and to the paddy wagon and the jail cell...
...deadly illness or a striking change in the next generation, the impact of genetic mutations caused by radiation is not fully understood. To learn more about these effects, Cornell University Scientists Richard Holsten, Michiyasu Sugii and Frederick Steward conducted an experiment of elegant simplicity. They irradiated single carrot cells in a growth-stimulating broth of coconut milk, planning to grow them into complete plants. Thus any mutations that showed up on the complete plan could be traced back with assurance to radiation-caused changes in the chromosomes of a single microscopic cell...
...make doubly sure that no other influences were affecting their carrots, the cautious scientists ran an ingenious check: they irradiated the coconut milk and in it they grew cell tissue from a normal cell. When they examined the tissue cells, however, they were startled to find that the chromosomes were damaged. And this time they could not blame the result on direct radiation...