Word: finds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passenger terminal last week. "The ceiling seemed to fall in, and there was broken glass all over the place." Caught soon after the explosion, two young Jordanian terrorists proudly owned up to the attack. "We do not deny our acts, " they boasted. "We are hitting the enemy where we find him." In all, they injured three Americans, one Briton and eleven Greeks-one of whom, a 2½-year-old boy, died after a half-dollar-sized fragment was removed from his brain...
...causes two chemically complementary strands of DNA to combine in a double helix. But the two strands were complementary only along the segments that had been parts of the original bacterial lac gene. Thus, only these segments could combine (Step 2). The remainder of the viral strands, unable to find properly matched partners, were left dangling. After these stray tails were chemically dissolved, only the single gene remained (Step...
...mess? The mosquito abatement district switched from the persistent DDD to methyl parathion, a chemical that is effective against gnats but that deteriorates and becomes harmless in a short time. At the same time, the district hired a team of scientists from the University of California at Davis to find a way to control the gnats biologically. Led by Entomologist Sherburne F. Cook Jr., the team decided that a small fresh-water smelt, the Mississippi silverside, might find the gnats appetizing. In 1967 they "planted" 3,000 fingerlings in the lake...
...permanent replacement will be Dick Cavett, a triumph with the reviewers (TIME, June 20), if not with the ratings in two earlier ABC talk shows. But one was aired mornings, the other in prime evening time, and the hope is that in the late-night slot Cavett will finally find an audience up to his level of sophistication...
Arnulf Rainer, the man before the mirror, is a Viennese painter working under the influence of LSD. One of 34 artists who participated in a controlled experiment to test the effects of the drug on creative activity, Rainer was alternately amazed, disturbed and delighted to find himself turning his face into a self-portrait. The sequence is one of the most dramatic moments in a film titled The Artificial Paradises, which will be shown on West German television next week. The guiding genie behind the tests was Dr. Richard Hartmann, a Munich psychiatrist and art dealer, working in conjunction with...