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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Segal's first zoological work was with the limpet, a small saltwater mollusk, but when he got to Emporia, he turned over a stone and found a slug. It was love at first sight. He took the slug back to the lab and eagerly collected company...
...century ago the first Protestant missionaries set foot in Japan.† What they found was not merely indifference or suspicion, but a ferocious hatred of Christianity that had been fostered by three centuries of relentless persecution. In last week's Christian Century, Presbyterian Missionary Richard H. Drummond tells of the all-but-forgotten martyrdom of Japan's first Christians...
There was no such animal-human barrier in the work of team members headed by Dr. Leon Hellman. They were dealing with the breakdown products of natural human hormones as they go through the metabolic cycle. From the breakdown of testosterone and related hormones the researchers found two potent derivatives: androsterone and etiocholanolone, with properties different from those of their parent substances. Example: androsterone lowers the level of circulating cholesterol (though testosterone may raise it), may thus be useful in combating atherosclerosis and reducing the danger of heart attacks and many strokes; etiocholanolone triggers a rise in body temperature...
...what other people are doing." Dr. Anne Carlsen, 43, was right in a way. She just does "what other people are doing," but with a difference: she does it with no arms, and with artificial legs. The President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped could have found no more logical recipient for its annual trophy award to the "Handicapped American of the Year...
...clumsy that she soon discarded it. When she was in high school, her left leg was amputated below the knee. Then, with artificial legs and crutches, Anne could really walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still to get the training she wanted to make her self-supporting as a teacher...