Word: gamma
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...path that led medical researchers to beta interferon was hardly straightforward. Initially, some scientists believed attacks characteristic of multiple sclerosis might be triggered by chronic viral infections. So in 1984 they began testing gamma interferon, one of the body's own antiviral weapons, in MS patients. To their horror, patients became dramatically worse. The false step proved instructive however. "It told us that gamma interferon was a major player in this disease," explains neurologist Dr. Kenneth Johnson of the University of Maryland at Baltimore...
...team, which shot a 33--six under par--was composed of four members of the co-ed Delta Gamma social club. They plan to donate their winnings to the Sight Conservation/Aid to the Blind, according to B.U. senior Kate P. Edelbaum...
...facts appear straightforward. A Green Beret unit in Vietnam running Project Gamma, a top-secret intelligence operation that monitored the results of the secret U.S. bombing in Cambodia, discovers that Chuyen, its key agent, may be a North Vietnamese double. The agent represents a profound threat to what the Green Berets perceive as a sensitive covert White House operation. A low-level CIA official in the embassy gives a wink and a nod for termination with extreme prejudice. Colonel Robert Rheault, a Green Beret officer cut in the Ollie North mode, orders Chuyen's death...
...murder. But is it murder? How did Chuyen's death differ from the hundreds of Vietnamese killed in the CIA's Operation Phoenix? Unlike the rowdy and unprofessional soldiers at My Lai, these Green Berets were elite and disciplined troops. Can they be faulted for believing Project Gamma to be an extremely critical intelligence operation, deserving of all efforts to protect...
...known as the Great Annihilator: a mysterious region close to the center of the Milky Way galaxy that spews out bursts of high-energy gamma rays. A popular theory held that the Great Annihilator was actually a gigantic black hole, a million stars collapsed into a single object so dense that its gravity wouldn't let even light escape. New information gathered by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and published in Nature has found that this theory is slightly off the mark. The Great Annihilator does indeed seem to be a black hole...