Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asparaginase. The story of L-asparaginase traces back to a 1953 observation by Cornell University's Dr. John G. Kidd that serum from normal, healthy guinea pigs killed some-but by no means all-types of cancer in mice, without harming the animals' other tissues. It took Cornell's Dr. John...
Broome eight years to ferret out the guinea pigs' secret. These animals, and a few closely related species such as the agouti, have in their blood the enzyme L-asparaginase, so called because it effects a chemical breakdown of the amino acid L-asparagine.*Many of the body's cells need asparagine as a source of nourishment, and normal cells manufacture it within themselves. But some types of cancer cells, which also need it, cannot make it. So they steal it from healthy cells...
...institute, while 250 have shared its life as interns and fellows. Many of them agree with Mathews that the institute is able to "articulate the mood, style and pattern of the post-modern world view" in ways that conventional churches cannot. Members of the institute, says Pierce, are "guinea pigs" who offer themselves in experiments that seek to discover "what new life style and structures are necessary" for Christianity's years ahead...
Nkrumah has avoided the cage. He is ensconced in a seaside villa in the Guinean capital of Conakry, 980 miles from Accra, where he studies French, carries on a voluminous correspondence with his remaining admirers and hatches schemes for a triumphal return. Though Sékou Touré, Guinea's leader, has distinctly cooled on his initial offer to share power and prestige with Nkrumah, he continues to give Nkrumah sanctuary. Nkrumah's presence is thus still felt in Ghana, especially by the military men of the National Liberation Council who now run the country...
Arsenic & Heart Disease. Ozone and PAN produce the eye irritation, coughing and chest soreness experienced by many Los Angeles residents on smoggy days. In laboratory experiments, continuous exposure to ozone shortened the lives of guinea pigs. Scientists have also calculated that a child born in New York City after World War II has now inhaled the pollution equivalent of smoking nine cigarettes per day every day of his life. Like those in cigarettes, some of the hydrocarbons identified in automobile exhausts have produced cancer in laboratory animals...