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...operated by a multinational board of directors and scientists. Schering-Plough last year invested $8 million in Biogen in return for exclusive worldwide manufacturing and sales rights to three of its products. Biogen has also found a second way to make interferon and is working on chemicals to cure foot-and-mouth disease, hepatitis and malaria...
Cambridge has produced a number of famous scientists--Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray to name two--but perhaps none so concerned with human welfare as Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse. Working in an office-lab, he laid the ground for the cure to smallpox...
...their worldly possessions and high hopes: "We dreamed of making a permanent home in the wilderness, apart from the forces we thought were destroying and polluting the world." One of the first things they learn is that building a house from scratch is no way to cure materialism: "I have never in my life felt more completely tied to objects: raw materials and the tools to shape them with, garbage and structure." The house goes up, finally, but the money runs out before the place can be properly insulated. Elizabeth and Bob spend much of the bitter winter working...
Lester Mitscher, professor of medicinal chemistry, said he began his research ten years ago because American Indians had used such plants to cure diseases...
...menus has filled hundreds of texts. But none of them have digested so many facts so well. Wittily, the authors explain why Muslims eschew pork (pigs would have been an ecological disaster in the Middle East) and why chicken soup -so-called Jewish penicillin-really does help to cure a cold (it comforts nasal passages). They show why Chinese drink no milk, discuss the Aztec hunger for human flesh (people who ate people were the victims of protein deficiency) and explain why Africa's Bemba society would collapse into chaos without beer (a major source of nourishment as well...