Word: celling
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Like the sages of his native India, Organic Chemist and Nobel Laureate* Har Gobind Khorana is an extremely patient man. Nine years ago, he began working on the chemical synthesis of a single gene-the basic unit of heredity. By 1970 he had constructed a yeast-cell gene identical to the original-except for one thing: it lacked the vital "start" and "stop" signals to make it function in a living cell. Last week members of Khorana's team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology disclosed that his goal had finally been achieved. At an American Chemical Society meeting...
...Surgeon-Immunologist Felix Rapaport of the New York University Medical Center, who became the Transplantation Society's new president-elect last week. Prior to implanting new kidneys in beagles, he has been removing some of their bone marrow-the site, along with the lymph nodes, of white-blood-cell production-and irradiating the dogs. The X rays destroy the ability of the remaining bone marrow and lymphoid tissue to produce white blood cells. Then he reinjects the marrow cells, thus restoring the animal's immune system, and quickly performs the transplant. Some of the beagles on which this...
...several shades amused, is reminded of another self-portrait Sutton says he made. It was a plaster cast of his own head, cunningly painted and landscaped with cuttings from his hair. This marvel, sculptured surreptitiously in a Pennsylvania prison, was supposed to take Sutton's place in his cell bunk on the occasion of a jailbreak. But the cell block was searched and the extraordinary head found before Sutton could test its effect. The artist does not seem to have been unduly discouraged. He had, after all, astonished his audience...
Intimidating Aim. In Guinea, a common torture is confinement in a cell too small to allow a prisoner either to stand up or lie down. "The cell they put me in was about 4 ft. by 2 ft.," testifies Soumah Abou, 46, one of Sekou Toure's victims who now lives in France. "It had a tin roof and a metal door. There was no window, only some ventilation holes. There was no light, no bed, no place to go to the bathroom. For eight days I had no food or water...
...harmonious as most marriages. Yet beneath the patina of assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with a nervous breakdown." Says Yves himself: "I am ridden by anxieties all the time...