Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial thalamus, an area of the brain responsible for registering deep sustained pain; in the amygdala, a region of the brain's limbic system that plays a role in controlling emotion; and in the spinal cord...
Often cheaper than lab tests offered through gynecologists, these simple early warning systems save women money and, if they are unmarried, possible embarrassment. They also appeal to feminists, who feel women should rely on themselves and whenever possible avoid the male-dominated gynecological establishment. Indeed, the kits even have the blessings of many doctors, provided they are properly used. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Despite its simplicity and relatively high potential accuracy, the home test has shortcomings...
Vowell, who presides with consonance over the university's writing lab in Emporia, Kans., offers free guidance on a writer's hot line, a Dial-a-Grammarian service for students and anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., and the Johnson County Community College near Kansas City, Kans. "We get several calls a week from California alone," says Arkansas English Instructor Michael Montgomery. The most common questions concern the correct use of who vs. whom, and which vs. that...
...careened off a country road in Oklahoma and crumpled against a culvert. Its sole occupant lay dead, surrounded by a litter of papers she had been carrying. Karen Silkwood, 28, a lab technician in a plant producing fuel rods for nuclear reactors, had been driving to meet a New York Times reporter. She hoped to document her charges that officials at the installation, owned by the Kerr-McGee Corp., had continually and carelessly exposed their employees to one of the world's most dangerous metals: plutonium. But after the car was towed from the ditch, the papers could...
...Canadian Video Text System--Doug Parkhill, assistant deputy minister for communications, Canadian Ministry of Communications, Room 241, Aiken Computation Lab...