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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...
...eaten, the Middle African man-in-the-bush was for the most part unaware of the rich potential of the land beneath his feet. There, waiting to be found by the white man, were some of the earth's greatest stores of precious gems, iron, coal, gold, tin, copper and tungsten for the dawning age of electricity, pitchblende from which the minerals of the atomic age would one day be refined, and scores of other metals...
Tulla does use "chemex" percolators, however, besides the venerable copper arrangement, through which she filters the basic grind for many of her blends. "Salesmen have offered me modern replacements," she notes, "but I wouldn't change it. Tulla herself is a product of European coffee hospitality, and Cook tries to maintain the "civilized tradition" of the European coffee houses...
...company's founders. Walter, president since 1950, becomes chairman of the board. Vogelstein, who has been vice president since 1953, faces the immediate task of improving American Metal's profit picture, which suffered in the March quarter (47? a share v. 1956's 57?) from lower copper prices...
Like RW, every company is trying to copper its bets by developing civilian products for peacetime markets. But many of them, with no sales or marketing organizations, will find the going too hard. The biggest winners will probably be the big companies with years of production and selling experience...