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...From her earliest experiments, Levi-Montalcini, who holds both Italian and American citizenship, focused on the nervous system. Before her discovery, scientists did not understand how organs signaled developing nerve cells to link up with them. It was Levi-Montalcini who first suggested in 1951 that the signal might come from a growth-stimulating chemical in the cells targeted by the nerves. Her hunch was confirmed in 1952 when she observed that single nerve cells, taken from chick embryos and cultured with tissue from mouse tumors, sprouted nerve fibers that reached out "like the rays of the sun." Her conclusion...
...complement the reduction in games, the season should also start earlier--in earliest April, with all games for the first two weeks played in warm-weather or domed sites...
...Michael was one of the earliest public officials to attack Harvard for a living, and he won enormous public support for it," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, a retired member of the Cambridge school committee...
...should at the very earliest destroy its last missiles only when it completes tests on a defense system and prepare for deployment. Gorbachev's insistence in Iceland that testing not proceed on the one comprehensive defense system currently being researched by the U.S. is unacceptable, because the gap between laboratory research and actual deployment would certainly be great enough to allow the Soviets or a crazed dictator to render this nation completely helpless...
...autumn rush on their hands. "The accountants and the H & R Blocks of this world must be rubbing their hands in glee," observes Raymond Kinzie, a senior vice president at Chicago's Lake View Bank. Indeed, tax advisers have been working overtime in a competition to develop the earliest and most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution: A New Era Begins, and Pocket Books is coming out this month with J.K. Lasser...