Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversion of biomass into energy has been increasing even without Government help. Power plants in many cities, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, burn garbage to produce electricity, and more and more grain, sugar cane, wood wastes and other residues are being fermented into alcohol fuels...
...indiscriminately and makes its kills in a particularly cruel way: instead of the explosive-tipped harpoons used by most whalers, it employs the unarmed type. These do less damage to whale meat but only prolong the agony of the great mammals, often attracting other whales who, in trying to help their beleaguered brethren, are themselves caught. Last week, in a dramatic reversal, the hunter suddenly became the prey...
...least understood "remedies" in the doctor's satchel. Generally they come as pills of milk sugar or talc or as injections of salt water. Such substances are considered pharmacologically inert, incapable of eliciting a response when prescribed in reasonable quantities. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that placebos help as many as 30% or 40% of patients with real enough ills, including postoperative pain, migraines, coughs, seasickness, arthritis, ulcers, hypertension, hay fever, even warts...
...testing the substance in living creatures, including man. Still, the scientists hope that within two years vats of genetically redesigned E. coli will be acting as minifactories, churning out sufficient somatotropin to treat dwarfism. There may also be enough to test a long held suspicion: that HGH can help heal burns, wounds, bone fractures and even bleeding ulcers...
...with Blyth's work, and even quoted from one of his papers. But Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain his achievement. Like other scientists who were also able to see great distances, he was standing on the shoulders of giants. -Peter Stoler