Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eden. Giggling bar girls sipped "Saigon Tea," at $1.69 a glass, while their G.I. boy friends tossed down "33" beer. The coffee shops along Tu Do Street were jammed once more, as were the city's myriad open-air markets. Saigon was coming alive, and it was the fresh prospect of peace that was responsible...
Last week, in fact, workmen were erecting a barbed-wire fence around the National Assembly building, and the already massive palace guard is being built up still more. The barbed wire and the fresh guardsmen are not intended to bolster defenses against the Viet Cong. They are in preparation for what Thieu considers the inevitable, and probably bloody, demonstrations for and against peace...
...Fuel. Aboard the Alpha Helix, Biochemist Eberhard Trams of the National Institutes of Health discovered that the brain's control of the pituitary gland was a major factor in the sudden aging of the salmon. As the fish enters fresh water, he found, the pituitary quickly grows to more than twice its normal size, and the central nervous system fails to maintain control. The gland then triggers a metabolic speedup that burns away practically all of the fat in the salmon's body. Biochemist Andrew Benson, associate director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explains...
Another effect of the fresh water, says Benson, is to stimulate the production of a hormone that causes calcium to dissolve out of the bones. The bloodstream is thus supplied with calcium that is no longer available from the calcium carbonate in ocean water-but the cost is high. The salmon's bones soften and virtually dissolve...
...Prudence and the Pill--Deborah Kerr confronts an academic question. At the FRESH POND, Fresh Pond Shopping Center...