Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, it is both smart and thrifty to honeymoon at the Harvard Hospital,* near Salisbury. There, snuffling cheerfully last week in the cause of Science, Newlyweds Darlig & Sweed were serving with other volunteers as guinea pigs in a study of the common cold...
...owned Ponape before World War I, a few scientists made sketchy reports. Nonscientific visitors have written up the mystery without solving it. Some archeologists believe the ruins to be 3,000 years old, and attribute them to "Protomalayans" or "Protopolynesians." Another theory favors kinky-haired Melanesians from the New Guinea region, who build less ambitious islands off their own coasts today...
...patient's blood, early diagnosis should be easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
Soekarno, like thousands of other young Indonesian intellectuals, was a wavering moderate in his opposition to Dutch rule. In 1926 the Dutch made a major blunder. In suppressing a Communist uprising, they exiled 4,500 Indonesians, without trial, to New Guinea. Soekarno became an uncompromising (but nonCommunist) nationalist, reached out for power, achieved a considerable following before being exiled to Flores Island...
Prizes to Find. Other prizes lie in New Guinea, where stone-age" fuzzy-wuzzies, ignorant of the outside world, live in high, cool "white man's country...