Word: gram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely expressed doubts of other researchers. Three reports now cast a further shadow on Pauling's theory. In one of two studies published in the A.M.A. Journal, 311 volunteers at the National Institutes of Health took part in an experiment in which about half were given one gram of vitamin C three times daily for a nine-month period; the remainder took a placebo under the same circumstances. If a volunteer showed signs of coming down with a cold, the dosage of pills -whether vitamin C or placebo-was increased by three grams per day. N.I.H. researchers report that...
...final hours the delegates also managed to make some potentially significant recommendations on a system of world food reserves; the details are to be worked out in future meetings. They agreed in general terms to establish a permanent gram stockpile to help hunger-stricken areas in future emergencies. In a gesture that was strongly supported by the U.S. delegation, wealthy countries were called on to supply 10 million tons of grain to food-short areas for each of the next three years, until the permanent stockpile can be built up. In addition, an early warning system providing world crop information...
...seen if the various blocs can overcome their differences and actually implement these agreements by supplying the huge amounts of grain and money needed. The long-range proposals did little to help the millions who may not survive until the next harvest. Hope was briefly raised that immediate gram needs-estimated by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization to be at least 8 million tons in South Asia and Africa-might be met when Canada and Australia together pledged 1.5 million tons of short-term aid. But the U.S., the Soviet Union and the EEC did not make...
...Journalists Marc Hillel, 46, a French Jew, and his wife Clarissa Henry, 36, a French citizen of English Protestant parentage. In a 400-page book on Le-bensborn to be published in France in January and in a stark, 2½%-hour documentary film, the Hillels trace the pro gram's grotesque course. They show that Himmler had become obsessed with the idea of "racial war" and told Lebensborn directors that he wanted "racially acceptable" children in occupied lands brought to the Fatherland to be raised as Germans. "How can we be so cruel as to take a child...
...blackmailed into carrying drugs after they have run up heavy debts playing mah-jongg in the "Chinese Only" gambling dens of the city's Rosse Buurt (red-light district). Once the heroin arrives, it may be sold on the streets of Amsterdam for between $40 and $60 a gram. Much of it, however, is shipped to markets all over Europe, including the U.S. Seventh Army bases in West Germany. There are few obstacles to the intra-European smuggling, since border inspections have all but ceased within the Common Market...