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Recombinant DNA, or gene splicing, is a kind of modern alchemy. Scientists obtain DNA for a desired product, such as human insulin, and insert it into the DNA of a laboratory strain of a common intestinal bacterium. The bacterium, following directions from the new DNA, then produces the insulin. Scientists believe that the technique can be used to form a number of healthcare, agricultural and industrial products more cheaply and easily than ever before (see MEDICINE...
There are as many schools of acupuncture as psychology, and each has its own history, traditions and even needles. Some use contact points while others insert heavier needles two to three millimeters into the skin. It is an anaesthetic and a therapy for thousands, yet it remains more of an art than a science
Inflation adjustments are now creeping into other areas of American society. Atlanta landlords, for example, insert COLA clauses in office leases. Divorce settlements often contain a clause that increases child support and alimony payments according to rises in the CPI. California and a few other states have indexed their income taxes. This automatically raises the amount of earnings covered by each tax bracket, thus keeping tax rates the same even though inflation-bloated incomes are increasing...
...least by ordinary medical standards. They include hypnosis, biofeedback and acupuncture. Some new approaches are also being explored. To numb sensitive areas of the back by killing nerves, the pain doctors have been injecting alcohol into the tiny nerves of the vertebrae. For problems with facet joints, they sometimes insert heated needles into the area's nerves, an acupuncture-like technique called surgical diathermy or facet denervation. Another popular tool of the pain clinicians: pocket-size electrical stimulators that patients carry around with them. Held against a painful area these gadgets provide a little shock that produces a tingling...
...crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur of paintings, wine, well-bound books and unfettered women. Petrodollars, he reasons coldly, can rig almost anything, including the stock market. His plan is simple. Surreptitiously insert billions of those dollars into the U.S. stock market and then cut the price of oil to $10 per bbl. The Dow Jones average will go through the top of the World Trade Center, and the Kingdom will be an overnight hero to the hard-pressed West. The scheme works...