Word: heber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before you dash out for doughnuts: "Many people have genetics that lead to a huskier look, and often that huskiness is not fat. [But] there are people we all know who used to be fat, then permanently changed their life-styles, and are now thin." says Dr. David Heber of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Obesity most definitely increases risk of heart disease, Heber adds...
Kisser sued the Church and its president, Rev. Heber Jentzsch, for libel on the basis of statements contained in an October 1991 issue of Freedom Magazine, a Church of Scientology publication...
...Limonta became director of the brand-new CIGB, which quickly grew into a sprawling research dynamo, one of more than two dozen Cuban institutes dedicated to the biological sciences. The center--along with its marketing arm, a quasi-corporate entity called Heber Biotec--now employs more than 1,200 technicians and scientists. "We don't have an institute of this size devoted to biotechnology in all Australia," marvels Peter Willadsen, a molecular biologist who directs a center on animal diseases in Indooroopilly, Australia...
Cuban researchers used to think of themselves as providers of biotechnology to their own country first, then to the Caribbean and finally to large developing nations like Brazil, China and Iran. Thus, Heber provides all Cuban newborns with the hepatitis-B vaccine for free and charges countries like India as little as $2 a shot. But the "special period"--as Cubans euphemistically refer to the economic crisis that followed the Soviet withdrawal--has redrawn these priorities, and Cuba's biotechnicians are entertaining larger ambitions. "We have the technology," declares Julio Delgado, who heads CIGB's industrial-enzyme program...