Word: celling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police claim that Soto, a high school student who had no police record, and Rosado, who had been charged earlier with illegal possession of firearms, belonged to the Movimiento Armado Revolucionario, a tiny radical cell with no ties to the mainstream political parties. One of the group's five members, Alejandro González Malavé, 21, was an undercover agent for the police. He and the two youths stopped a cab on the outskirts of Ponce last July 25. At gunpoint they forced the driver, Julio Ortiz Molina, to take them up a remote mountain road...
This last accomplishment has brought Thomas more attention than all the others put together. A collection of 29 of his essays was published in 1974 under the title The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. No one expected much, least of all the author. For one thing, most Americans escape from the study of biology as fast as their teachers will let them; if they think of the subject at all, they are likely to remember rubbery dead frogs and the smell of formaldehyde. For another, Thomas made few concessions to the ignorance of laymen. He certainly...
...told him that I thought I had done enough. He said that he wanted me to continue and persuaded me that I should, so I did." Very shortly afterward, Thomas' column began attracting a cult of pass-along readers. The evolution that led to The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail had begun...
...Groucho-style. He is on the run elsewhere as well, making frequent trips to Washington for committee work and to testify at congressional hearings, and to Cambridge, where he serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers. In his laboratory he continues experimenting, currently studying two microbes that lack cell walls and observing how they interact with the body's immune system. He also reads voraciously, particularly poetry, and is teaching himself Greek so that he can read Homer in the original. The doctor's spare time is not wasted in worry; he smokes a pipe constantly, enjoys...
...still astonished at things that others, mistakenly, take for granted. Why, he muses in The Medusa and the Snail, did people make such a fuss over the test-tube baby in England? The true miracle was, as always, the union of egg and sperm and the emergence of a cell that can grow into a human brain. "The mere existence of that cell," he writes, "should be one of the greatest astonishments of the earth. People ought to be walking around all day, all through their waking hours, calling to each other in endless wonderment, talking of nothing except that...