Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dope comes to Europe in small packets borne by an "ant army" of couriers. From the lawless wilds of the Golden Triangle, dried poppy extract travels by backpack, bicycle, mule and even army trucks to crude labs, some in jungles, some in Southeast Asia's sprawling Chinatowns. There chemists refine the caky black powder into two grades of heroin: No. 3, the 40%-50% pure "brown sugar" favored for smoking, and fluffy white No. 4, 90% pure "stuff" for needle addicts. The dope is ferried to Europe by air, ingeniously cached in all sorts of objects-mah-jongg tiles...
...flawed by its glib attempt to examine a fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...
...comes staggering into his student digs, dying from a crevice that has been carved across his abdominal region. It is not long before Babe finds himself en during the dental ministrations of Szell, suffering horribly while the Nazi per forms some impromptu root-canal work in an attempt to extract information that Babe does not possess...
...test his theory, Riggio has been injecting gamma globulin from human placentas, which are usually discarded after delivery, into patients at the hospital's Rogosin Kidney Center. He hopes that the placental extract will transfer blocking antibodies into them. That then might encourage acceptance of new organs. A positive sign: when Riggio examined long-term transplant survivors at the center, he found that their acceptance of kidney grafts somehow appeared to have been enhanced by a biochemical mechanism similar to that postulated in pregnant women...
Should the extract eventually be used on humans, according to Ehresmann, it will probably be applied in ointment form directly to the developing herpes sores. That day would come none too soon for millions of herpes sufferers. Says Ehresmann: "Herpes virus disease is very disabling and disrupts the life of a victim. Any substance that could help control it would be a significant contribution to human health...