Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAST BOOKS READ: "Jocks Are Not All Dumb" by coach Harry Gamble, PhD, the Classics Illustrated version of the "Autobiography of Ben Franklin" and the Reader's Digest condensed version of "Talking to Your Plants...
...stimulate the economy, Simon has been forced to find a new language in which to couch his orientation toward investment and corporate well-being. Hence, Simon the Moralist and Prophet has made his debut in speeches around the country to business groups and in articles in Readers' Digest and Saturday Review. According to Simon, "the ethics of thrift and savings have been replaced by the ethics of instant pleasure, and we have turned to the modern state to satisfy our hunger." Simon says that the United States is spending too much of its income on consumption and not enough...
...room with a mirror in the shape of a crucifix. The walls are neatly papered with church directories, to worship at the place of your choice, which in this case was every Lutheran Church within 100 miles. No temples. Also, shelves packed tight with ancient copies of Reader's Digest, and a calender or two sponsored by the very same publication. Best of all was that rural passion for personal signs--dozens of them, informing people not to throw cigarettes down the toilets (ashtray provided), not to run the water too long, quiet hours 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., bingo...
...that irradiating the host organisms with ultraviolet light after plasmid transfer induced a genetic cross-linking that fixed the new genes in place and produced stable bacteria with a healthy appetite for oil. The new microbe, to which Chakrabarty gives the jawbreaking description "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading pseudomonas," can digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons involved in an oil spill. The new microbes have been tested only in the laboratory, where a pinch of microbes will eat an eyedropper of oil in a matter of days. This may seem slow, but it is between ten and 100 times faster...
...financial standard, CBS is the top network. It has posted record earnings for 17 consecutive quarters and, according to a Television Digest report released last week, its 1974 pretax profits ($110 million) were almost double those of its two competitors combined. Chairman William Paley, 73, who has run the network for almost 50 years, should feel a bit cheery. But Paley is fretful these days. He is upset by, of all things, a book, and a bad one at that...