Word: celling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the two medical researchers had discovered in 1975 was that if a cancer cell from a mouse is fused with a white blood cell that produces a specific antibody, then the hybrid cell can be cloned indefinitely and the antibodies separated from it. At the least, these monoclonal antibodies could be used for diagnosis of many ills; if proved safe, they might cure them. That all seemed a little remote to Greene, who was a successful marketing executive at Baxter Travenol Laboratories, but it stirred a response in Ivor Royston, an associate professor of medicine at the University...
...other, it was bound to be Alpha Otis Stephens' last night. First he tried killing himself, during his last lonely hours in a cell, by slashing at one wrist with a safety razor. He bled only a little. Then, just after midnight, the state of Georgia undertook to kill him. The 39-year-old murderer, looking scared, was strapped into the electric chair, electrodes fastened to his shaved head and shaved right leg. Superintendent Ralph Kemp counted to three, a volunteer executioner pushed a button, and 2,080 volts, 20 times the charge in a household socket, coursed through...
...Bhopal accident is by far the worst crisis ever to face Union Carbide. The company grew out of a firm founded in 1886 that produced the first dry-cell la battery. Union Carbide played a key role in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Over the years many of the firm's products, including Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze and Simoniz car wax, have become popular items in America's households. But the company's best customers are businesses. Major products include polyethylene and other petrochemicals, industrial gases like acetylene and argon, and pesticides...
Were it not for the impressive efforts of Swiss and Italian antiterrorist squads last week, the marble and granite U.S. embassy on Rome's Via Veneto could have shared the fate of the American embassy in Beirut last September. The police teams uncovered a cell of Islamic extremists who seemed to be on the verge of executing yet another bomb attack on a symbol of U.S. authority. The plot may have been the one brazenly promised by the shadowy Islamic Jihad group two days before the U.S. presidential election, when the terrorists promised to mount a violent operation that...
Although the students have refused to talk, the Italians believe the terrorist cell was organizing a suicide bomb attack, perhaps directed at a garage located below the quarters that house many of the Marine guards. The police assume that since it would take at least 200 Ibs. of plastic explosives to blow up a building the size of the embassy, the gang was still in the process of building up its cache. In fact, according to the police, the gang may have been planning the attack for at least a year...