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Some of the most promising new therapies arising from recent research involve the chemical signals, or lymphokines, that regulate the immune system. These extraordinary proteins have a bewildering array of names and functions. There are, for instance, three types of interferon -- alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha alone comes in more than a dozen varieties. Interleukins are similarly prolific. "We are already up to interleukin-7 and interleukin-8," says Immunologist Lloyd Old, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, "and one can expect that we will go on from there." Scientists have so far discovered at least five...
Supernova 1987A produced high amounts of radioactive nickel which decayed into radioactive cobalt in a week. This cobalt is still decaying, producing a prodigious quantity of gamma rays and x-rays. The experiment will measure the x-rays emitted by the supernova...
...secret to most Blacks that fraternities and sororities play an enormous role in socialization on predominantly-Black campuses. However Lee gave an inaccurate view of Greek life. He portrayed the head of the Gamma Fraternity, Julian Eaves, as a sadistic, egotistical creep. The sheer pain that Eaves put his pledges through may happen on an isolated basis, but this behavior would not be condoned by any national chapter of a Greek organization...
...hair weaves and are supposedly trying to look like whites, and the so-called "Jigaboos" who are proud of their Blackness-they take pride in their heritage and the women let their hair grow naturally. Most of this conflict is acted out in a series of catfights between the Gamma Phi women, the Gamma Rays, led by the blond-haired, green-eyed Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell) and the Jigaboo women, led by Dap's girfriend Rachel Meadows (Kyme...
...addition to airing some touchy intra-racial conflicts, the movie has a good deal of nasty, misogynistic business. Besides the several exaggerated catfights there's an especially disturbing scene where Jane is forced to have sex with Half-Pint, the runt of the Gamma pledges (played unremarkably by Lee himself) as part of his initiation. All the audience has in the way of explanation for this type of slanted portrayal (Lee even stoops to the tired fat-women-are-funny gag) is the film's surreal epilogue contained in the last sequence...