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...globulin is a normal part of blood plasma, containing many proteins. In the blood of 60% of the schizophrenics studied by Gottlieb, the fraction was present at far-above-normal levels. The excessive alpha-2-globulin, Gottlieb theorizes, may perforate brain-cell walls and cause leakages that could disrupt the organ's normal processes. Such disruptions might contribute to the delusions, hallucinations and withdrawn state of schizophrenia victims...
...monopoly on idealism. After all, the drives against poverty and racism in the U.S. were energized not by them but by their elders. It would also profit the students to recognize the temporary nature of their power and the severe limits on it. Theirs is primarily the power to disrupt. They can interfere with the established authority, but they cannot change it without help from other powerful groups in the population-as Czech students learned in their successful protest and Polish students learned in their unsuccessful one. With that in mind, activist students might do more to court allies...
...large time deposits-money left with a bank for a specified period. The new ceiling applies to "certificates of deposit" of $100,000 or more with maturities of six months or longer. By this action, the Fed hopes to prevent sharp deposit losses, which would further disrupt the already nervous financial markets...
...just a simple question and I am not causing trouble nor do I intend to disrupt my processing...
...countless U.S. colleges, angry students have threatened to disrupt their campuses in confrontations with administrators on the issue of student power. But not at the University of Pennsylvania, where the question is purely academic. In what President Gaylord P. Harnwell approvingly calls "a quiet revolution," carried out with neither malice nor militancy, students have been ushered into the corridors of power, and at Penn they now wield more control over their destinies than do their peers at other schools of its size...