Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's New Orleans seminar of the American Cancer Society was made not by a doctor or biologist, but by an aeronautical engineer. Clarence Cone Jr., of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, was assigned by the space agency to study the effect on cell division of any radiation that astronauts might encounter. Cone knew that normal cells, grown in the laboratory, will not multiply and crowd one another beyond a certain point. But cancer cells lack this "contact inhibition," and are joined by intimate bonds or "bridges" of cellular material...
During his research, Cone found that when a cancer cell divides, it sets off a chain reaction. He suggests that an electrical signal accompanying division in the first cell flashes through the network of bridges to other cells in the group, causing all of them to divide nearly instantaneously. This process, Cone believes, helps explain the uncontrolled proliferation of cells that characterizes cancer...
Gasping for Breath. Sirhan professes that he has no recollection of shooting Kennedy last June. However, Diamond was able to make the assassin relive the killing in his prison cell six months later by hypnotizing him with a coin held eight inches from his eyes. "Sirhan simply pulled an imaginary gun out of his belt," Diamond recounted to the court, "and fired it convulsively again and again and shouted out: 'You son of a bitch...
...What has passed returns to nothingness if one gazes back at it," runs one line of the libretto. "Today is spring; tomorrow the flower wilts." Perhaps it was thoughts like these that helped Yun finish Dreams in a Seoul prison cell last year...
...produced expert witnesses, such as Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Manhattan (TIME, May 24), who have questioned the accuracy of any testimony given during or after hypnosis. Spiegel said that Caron's desire to cooperate with the Government, along with his own instability-he had tried suicide in his cell -made him a highly suggestible hypnotic subject. For example, Spiegel pointed out, Caron had remembered Miller's license plate only after all of the digits were suggested to him during the sessions. His identification of Miller, moreover, could have been reinforced through the power of suggestion...