Word: labs
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Buildings & Brides. Another coup came last year when Kroyer was called upon to salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...
Died. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, 64, research director of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and a brain father of birth control pills; of myeloid metaplasia, a blood disease; in Boston. A brilliant biologist, Pincus first won national attention in 1939 by inducing a "fatherless" mammalian birth (a lab-fertilized rabbit egg); then in the 1950s, with Harvard Gynecologist John Rock, successfully tested an ovulation depressant called progestin, which came on the market in 1960 as Enovid. At his death, Pincus was testing yet another idea: a "morning after" pill, which keeps fertilized eggs from settling in the womb...
...have antiviral properties (though no one then knew why). Extraordinarily complex extraction procedures yielded a pure ribonucleic acid (RNA). But this was no ordinary RNA, such as occurs in the cores of many viruses in molecules of single strands. This proved to be a double-stranded form. The lab team called...
...kill any insect, including those helpful to man and essential to the functions of nature. The reason that all insects are not wiped out in the Rio Negro area is that not all of them come into contact with the insecticide-laden river. Back at work in his Harvard lab, Williams is now studying the river concentrates to learn what chemicals they contain, and how these lethal substances can be extracted separately for discriminate use against particular pests...
...when definitive performances can be purchased for the price of a plastic disc, one often wonders what peculiar force continues to attract listeners to a concert given by amateurs. The near-capacity crowds at Sanders during the past two Thursday nights suggest however, that Audio-Lab has yet to monopolize the listener's world. Last night Prof. Harold Schmidt of Stanford conducted the Summer School Chorus and Cantabrigia Orchestra in a program that was as varied in quality as it was in repertoire. Realizing that an entire evening of full chorus and orchestra would be a dubious effort on only...