Word: guinea
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...strikes and an explosion in an aluminum plant, but the heart of the problem lies in Manley's effort to increase the percentage of government revenue from bauxite exports. In so doing, the prime minister raised the price of Jamaica's bauxite far above world levels, and Australia and Guinea--the two largest producers--were more than happy to replace the slack in supply that Jamaica's artificially high price had caused...
...what illnesses he is most likely to contract. Caracas-born Benacerraf, 59, who teaches at Harvard, has further defined the histocompatibility complex. He was intrigued by the variable nature of the immune response-the body's defense against such foreign invaders as viruses. In experiments with mice and guinea pigs, Benacerraf found that the genes that control the vigor of the immune response are part of the major histocompatibility complex...
...Tanzania, for all its self-righteousness, holds more political prisoners than South Africa. East Africa's most respected writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, of Kenya, is in jail as an alleged subversive. One quarter of the population of Equatorial Guinea is in exile. Nineteen black African countruss are under military rule," Lamb's report continued. Last week Lamb told a critic who accused the Western press of being overly negativistic in its Africa coverage, that he, too, was tired of going to Uganda to write stories about Amin...
...health, there is usually no way of knowing who will become ill in any given population or what ailments will be caused by the exposure. Scientists might be able to find out by giving selected people precise amounts of chemicals for specific lengths of time and comparing these human guinea pigs with a control group that has not been exposed. But such experiments would raise proper howls of indignation. So the disease detectives must rely on less direct methods...
...title suggests, the fascination is in the hunt, in the search for solutions. Problem: a small tribe in New Guinea, the Fore, was threatened with extinction. For unknown reasons, most of its women were being attacked by a nerve disease that began in giggles and ended in death. Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, an American epidemiologist, arrived in 1957 and investigated. He gave the victims every medicine on the shelves. He checked the water in the streams, the soil, even the ashes in the cooking fires. Finally, after months of inquiry, he discovered that when someone died, the Fore buried...