Word: karis
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...devout Protestants in New York. In Elmhurst alone they have established at least four churches. The Indian population in Queens, settled for decades and now 25,000 strong, has an elaborate cultural center-cum-Hindu temple in Flushing, complete with domes and sculpted elephants. One day in May, Kari and Shanthi Naidu were worshiping at the altar of Sri Mahalaksai, a god of well- being. They had paid a Hindu priest $5 for a prayer service. "Quite frankly," says Kari Naidu, "I did not become a believer until I arrived in this country. But here, away from home, I recognized...
...They were dirty looking, scroungy . . . He grabbed me by both wrists." Tall, tan Kari Swenson, 23, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, was testifying about what happened to her when she encountered two strange men last July while on a training run not too far from the Big Sky resort in Montana. "The old man said they just wanted to talk for a while. He said, 'We don't get many women up in the mountains that we can talk...
...five months the two mountain men, Don Nichols, 53, and his son Dan, 20, had eluded lawmen in the remote Montana wilderness near Bozeman. Many residents figured that the fugitives, wanted for the July kidnaping of Kari Swenson, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, and for the murder of a man who helped rescue her, had fled the frigid region before the onset of winter. But not Sheriff Johnny France, who had attended the same high school as the elder Nichols. "I'm a mountain man too," he insisted. "It will take one to catch...
...small band of interferon researchers were able to produce or get their hands on enough interferon to analyze its nature, but the stuff was far too scarce or any significant tests on humans. Most of the credit for relieving that acute shortage goes to a stubborn Finnish virologist, Kari Cantell, who proudly admits that "interferon has been my hobby and main scientific interest for over 20 years." Cantell began his career by studying the role of leukocytes, or white blood cells, in fighting infection. He became intrigued when he learned from other researchers in 1961 that these cells could produce...