Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might accept the Democratic vice-presidential nomination, saying it would be "trading a vote for a gavel." Before the reconciliation, he liked to refer to Kennedy as "young Jack," said Kennedy had rolled up primary victories because "Jack was out kissing babies while I was passing bills." In the heat of battle, Johnson wasn't above rattling the long-closeted skeleton of Old Joe Kennedy's days as U.S. Ambassador to England: "I wasn't any Chamberlain umbrella policy man. I never thought Hitler was right...
When most animals are exposed to heat, they keep cool by sweating or panting. Not the camel. Its nappy coat insulates it against external temperatures, and it can withstand body temperatures of up to 104.9°F. before its sweat glands begin to function. As the camel is cooled by its evaporating sweat, it can lose up to 30% of its total body weight without harm because the water content in the blood plasma stays close to normal, permitting the blood to circulate freely. Camels loping in after a two-week journey across the sands are often in an extremely...
...secret of survival and have higher albumin levels than other breeds. He has carried out successful experiments on rabbits in an effort to give them the camel's water-retaining capacity. Rabbits injected with camel albumin were kept for seven days without water in 104°F. heat, and lost only 3% or less of their body water; control rabbits not given the injections lost from 5% to 10% and were close to death...
...hope of finding a way to make man more immune to desert heat, Dr. Perk plans to begin experimenting on human volunteers next summer. Meanwhile, there is evidence that some humans may already have some of the camel's thirst-conquering equipment. A Tel Aviv researcher has collected data showing that Yemenite Jews, traditional desert dwellers, have a significantly higher blood-albumin level than Jews of European lineage...
...much heat, obviously, had to come from more than a mere biennale. And although it may have been indiscreet of him, the U.S.'s commissioner to the Venice festival, Alan Solomon, diagnosed the real embarrassment: "The fact that the world art center has shifted from Paris to New York is acknowledged on every hand...