Word: digested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orders it to produce more flu viruses. Quickly engorged, the invaded cell bursts, releasing new viruses to infiltrate other cells and replicate further. Left unchecked, the onslaught would eventually kill enough cells to cause death. But the intruders soon encounter roving scavenger cells called phagocytes, which simply engulf and digest them. These defenders -- monocytes, neutrophils and macrophages -- secrete substances that dilate nearby blood vessels and make them more permeable, enabling even more defenders to get from the bloodstream to the infection site. Other proteins, those belonging to the complement system, aid in this process...
...down Cymbeline right now and pick up Baseball Digest...
...theme is that there is money to be made telling people where to go. The idea is not new. Several U.S. periodicals devoted to the journeying reader emerged at the turn of the century, including the forefather of what is today's Travel-Holiday, owned by the Reader's Digest. That magazine now has a circulation of 800,000 and remains a sedate, middlebrow Howard Johnson's sort of enterprise. The new action is exemplified by the current industry leader, American Express's upscale Travel & Leisure, a 17-year-old that is still growing briskly, with a circulation...
...displace are enraged by his project. "Whittle's plan is not far away from book burning," exclaims T George Harris, editor of American Health, which offers 100,000 subscriptions free of charge to doctors. "We aren't about to roll over," declares Kenneth Gordon, publisher of Reader's Digest. John Beni, president of Gruner + Jahr USA, publisher of Parents and Expecting, vows, "Magazine publishers will strike back...
Kodak last week showed off its invention, which accepts negatives much the way automated tellers digest bank cards. While viewing the film's positive image on a 13-in. color monitor, consumers can crop the photo, zoom in or out and adjust its angle. The quick prints, in 5 by 7, 8 by 10 or 11 by 14 size, are expected to be slightly more expensive than those produced from negatives left at the photo shop...