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...last the chemists isolated a small drop (20 mg.) of colorless, oily stuff, odorless to humans but with an enormous attraction for male gypsy moths. It could be diluted almost endlessly. Less than one ten-thousandth of a billionth of a gram (10 -7 microgram) of it was enough to bring eager males fluttering out of the woods. When the potent oil was analyzed, it proved to be a surprisingly simple chemical (10-acetoxy-1-hydroxy-cis-7-hexadecene) that can be synthesized for $5 per Ib. Dr. Jacobson has about 1 Ib. on hand. If it were diluted...
...market was a Schwartz offering of dehydrated firefly tails at $5 per gram as a sensitive test for ATP-adenosine tri-phosphate-a vital chemical that is found in nearly all living cells. When ATP is added to an extract of firefly tails, the solution lights up, and the amount of light given off is proportionate to the amount of ATP. By measuring the light, the ATP can itself be measured...
...ways, it is per fectly obvious that when she announces a performance of "that wonderful concerto, the one with the tune," she is referring to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-Minor. To a radio audience she once announced that she was planning a pro gram by living American composers and added: "You'd be surprised to find how many American composers are living." A small, energetic woman, Minnie Guggenheimer labors the year round raising money for her seven-week stadium season. She never hesitates to put the touch on an absolute stranger...
...role of independent Republican spokesman holds the promise of considerably strengthening the Republican Party. Said Rocky in his withdrawal statement: "I am a Republican-seriously concerned about the future vigor and purpose of my party ... In this spirit I expect to support the nominees, as well as the pro gram, of the party in 1960." One para mount party problem in the 1960 cam paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican...
When Dr. Fox dissolved his semi-proteins in hot water and let the solution cool, billions of microscopic spheres separated out of each gram. The spheres were about the same size as cocci (primitive bacteria), and they seemed to be sheathed with thin membranes much as bacterial cells are. Dr. Fox does not claim that his spheres are "alive," but he thinks his experiment demonstrates one possible means by which nonliving chemicals in the earth's primitive ocean may have been gathered together into cell-like units of life...