Word: curiousities
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Interferon is a large hormone-like protein produced by the cells of all vertebrate animals. It was discovered in 1957 in Britain by Virologists Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann during their investigation of a curious phenomenon: people are almost never infected by more than one virus at a time. Seeking an explanation, the researchers infected cells from chick embryos with influenza virus. What they found was a substance that protected the chick cells from both the flu and other viruses. Because it interfered with the infection process, it was dubbed interferon...
...Houston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. It consists of almost 200 paintings, spanning a career of more than 40 years. They run from his first tentative exercises in the manner of Milton Avery, his mentor, whose soft, vibrating patches of color had an indelible effect on Rothko; thence to the curious, stilted subway scenes of the 1930s, and to the totemic abstracts of vaguely identifiable figures-in-landscape which were the staple of his work up to the end of World War II, culminating in Slow Swirl at the Edge...
Sophomore year found him in a curious state of limbo--not having earned a spot on the senior-packed varsity, Jimmy found himself ambiguouisly classified as a "J.V." in a program which had essentially eliminated the junior varsity team for that year...
...Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist; one cannot be a believer and an atheist...
...almost a decade, each fall has witnessed the curious ritual of the University administration's attempt to entice undergraduates to elect representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), a student-faculty disciplinary committee formed in the wake of the 1969 student strike. And for almost as many years, undergraduates replied with a terse...