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...team, including Weiger, then tested this hypothesis by applying the substances to cells in the ventral nerve cord, and opposing postures were in fact generated...
Currently, Weiger is studying these "master cells." The entire nerve cord is removed from the animal, and the cells are then impaled with electrodes which measure their responses when various solutions containing the amines are passed over them...
Gorbachev seems unable to realize that there is no halfway house between a command system and a free market, and that there can be no successful private enterprise without private ownership. He is unable to cut the umbilical cord to the Marxist-Leninist philosophy that has nurtured him all his life...
...still, blue morning air 150 ft. above the town of Fort Lupton, Colo., two men float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact...
...campus. "It's the linchpin of biomedical research," says Yale medical school dean Leon Rosenberg. Last year alone, NIH scientists or their associates on university campuses began the first federally sanctioned gene therapy on a human, located the cystic fibrosis gene, developed a drug to reduce paralysis from spinal-cord injuries and demonstrated that the drug AZT prolongs life in AIDS patients...