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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently discovered factor in human milk which stimulates the growth and division of cells may help to promote the maturation and development of certain tissues in new born infants, a Harvard researcher said yesterday...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Harvard Biochemist Discovers New Hormone in Mothers' Milk | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...Hightower points out in his book on the food industry, Eat Your Heart Out, "the question is no simply who owns the farm, but who owns the farmer." Because they lack market power, farmers have been forced to sign contracts which commit the farmer to grow a certain crop for a certain price. If a farmer has had a bad year and goes into debt, a common occurance in such an unpredictable business, the corporate contractor can step in and tell the farmer how to run his farm...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Down on the Farmer | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

That's a shame, because there are some impressive performances here. Holly Sargent, as the ingenue-secretary who sets her heart on cornering a certain climbing executive for a march to the altar, blends just the right amounts of innocence and calculation, and throws in a decent singing voice, to boot. Thomas Baldridge plays the young-exec-on-the-make a bit too cloyingly--there are times when you want to rough him up a little for being too smarmy, and not nearly charming enough--but still manages a strong performance. And honors for a show-stopping effort...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A Moderate Success | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

...penicillinase, a natural product of the bacteria, serves as a carrier and marker, transporting the insulin to the cell surface where it normally resides. At the surface, the penicillinase and insulin can be exposed to certain radioactively labeled substances which attach specifically to these two proteins. Bacterial cells which are successfully manufacturing the protein are thus identified...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Scientific Race: Recombining DNA | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

Panama may be intended as a dithyramb of exhaustion-Pomeroy's and, grandiosely, the American culture's. But despair loses something when it is unearned and vaguely cute. The novel savors of cocaine, narcissism and a certain impenetrable smugness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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