Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abounding in pork-fed bosoms and thighs. Steve Canyon is an illustrated primer on military chess and international intrigue. The only violence not yet committed on the ageless person of Orphan Annie is rape. Even Peanuts, a comic with its points for young and old, is often a subtle dose of child psychology. Last week a comic created and drawn just for the kiddies-and, what's more, for kiddies too young to read-was running in eight papers (combined circ. 2,834,068),* and forcing reluctant parents to the piano and the kazoo...
After an atomic holocaust, insects may be the only creatures left alive for miles around. Some species can survive a radiation dose 200-300 times greater than that which would kill an elephant or a man. One explanation: cells are most susceptible to radiation damage when they are in the process of dividing. Since many insects, unlike humans, undergo no cell division during much of their lives, they are more highly resistant to radiation...
After importing six of the creatures 18 months ago, Dr. Baldwin has bred thousands of them, which he alternately bombards with X rays and gorges with blood. About 400 roentgens has generally been considered a lethal dose for man (see MEDICINE). But a mature kissing bug, Dr. Baldwin finds, can survive 50,000 roentgens. When he bombarded small spots on young kissing bugs with 2,000,000-volt X rays, he found the cells apparently unaffected. But when the insect ate, setting off the mechanism of cell division and molting, the latent damage appeared. The irradiated spots developed blisters...
They then planned to give the patient a large dose of radiation, after which the stored marrow would be transplanted. The experiments with this method have been moderately successful so far, but the group points out that more study is needed before its final value can be determined...
...Colombia, also hit by an epidemic, issued a similar call, got 90,000 children immunized. The schedule: three doses spaced three weeks apart. In Medellin doctors are trying a three-in-one vaccine combination for the newborn, will wait to see how it works before extending the one-dose method to older children...