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...next generation, the impact of genetic mutations caused by radiation is not fully understood. To learn more about these effects, Cornell University Scientists Richard Holsten, Michiyasu Sugii and Frederick Steward conducted an experiment of elegant simplicity. They irradiated single carrot cells in a growth-stimulating broth of coconut milk, planning to grow them into complete plants. Thus any mutations that showed up on the complete plan could be traced back with assurance to radiation-caused changes in the chromosomes of a single microscopic cell...
...make doubly sure that no other influences were affecting their carrots, the cautious scientists ran an ingenious check: they irradiated the coconut milk and in it they grew cell tissue from a normal cell. When they examined the tissue cells, however, they were startled to find that the chromosomes were damaged. And this time they could not blame the result on direct radiation...
...spices) to Zambia (cement makers, mining companies, clothing manufacturers). The International Yellow Pages also locates beeswax in Angola, molasses in the British West Indies, yacht charterers in Cambodia, industrial real estate agents and vodka vendors in the Soviet Union, lawyers in the Fiji Islands, safari services in Kenya, coconut harvesters in Tanzania. Even Pope Paul's Vatican City telephone number is in the book: Vatican City...
...Suckling. But things are perking up, thanks to an ambitious young man named France Albert René. The handsome, blue-eyed son of a coconut-plantation superintendent, René, 29, went off to London in 1955 to work his way through King's College law school, returned two years ago convinced that the Seychelles must be free-and that he must free them...
Warning darkly of the evils of a "coconut mentality," he led the islands' first labor strike, founded the Seychelles Peoples' United Party ("Let's Go with SPUP"), came out squarely for "socialism," "nonalignment" and "full independence from our colonial masters." Another SPUP doctrine: that every young working mother be allowed to suckle her baby twice...