Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copper-ore deposits of 25 million tons were discovered 100 miles from the Atlantic Coast at Akjoujt. France figures that she can yearly produce 60,000 tons of 25% copper concentrate, ship it to port on new 40-ton, 26-wheel desert trucks which French industry is turning out at the rate of 15 a month...
...forbidding Ahaggar mountains in the central Sahara, prospectors have found samples of gold, platinum, nickel, tin, chromium, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, copper, and one small diamond. But the area is separated from the nearest port by 1,400 miles of sand-swept desert trails. Admitted the French government's mining boss in Algeria, Turquet de Beauregard: "Even if we discovered a mountain of pure iron down there, it would not pay to ship it. So we have to look for very precious ores, such as platinum and uranium, which would be worth sending by plane...
...hours the broken body of Mohammed Said Kanibi, clad in copper-red execution clothes and draped with a huge sign proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been...
...will have to use his nishertive as well as clever tictacs to hold his own among citizens who are given to throwing fulsuric acid and include not a few sexual regenerates. They will steal even the light bulbs in the laventry and often must be subdued by a copper's rubber cruncheon. As for the women, even when they look like cherumbs. "you get first of all a dose, an' afterwards bad public relations...
More important than whether the reaction can be used as a test is the question of why it occurs at all. On this, Biochemist Akerfeldt shed some new light. What Akerfeldt's DPP reacts to is a copper-containing enzyme, ceruloplasmin, present in the blood. It had been assumed that there must be more of this enzyme in schizophrenic than in normal blood. Not so, said Akerfeldt: the reaction measures not the amount but the activity of ceruloplasmin, and this activity depends at least to some extent on the presence of a second substance which he has not identified...