Word: gamma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fears that other mosquito species, including those that carry malaria and yellow fever, may adapt themselves too, as house flies in some places already have. But the department is not discouraged. Other powerful insecticides (e.g., the gamma isomer of benzene hexachloride) can probably take over the job of defeated DDT - at least for a while...
...fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets a job as hasher at the Triple Gamma sorority house, and sets out to take four years of higher education...
...Last week a five-man Columbia University team reported that it had succeeded, after twelve years of work, in isolating, identifying and photographing (in an electron microscope) a virus that causes breast cancer in mice. The virus is so powerful that an injection of eight one-thousandths of a gamma (a gamma is one-thousandth of a milligram) produced cancer even in male mice. Next step, already started: trying to make mice immune to the virus...
...Then the Navy medics want the carcass for an autopsy, just in case they have missed something. Pig No. 311 appears to be normal in every way except one: she is sterile. Was this the A-bomb's fault? Said a Navy spokesman cagily: ". . . Not necessarily . . . Ordinarily, enough gamma rays to cause sterility also will kill the victim...
...Gamma rays...