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...discovered the ways in which food is turned into energy; on Nov. 22; in Oxford, England. Born in Germany, Krebs was a researcher in Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea, the product of metabolized protein, is formed in the liver. Four years later, after fleeing to England from Nazi Germany, he discovered the citric acid cycle-later named the Krebs cycle-in which organisms convert carbon compounds into carbon dioxide. In the late 1950s, he discovered the glyoxylate cycle, in which fats are used as carbon sources for cell growth. Krebs...
...response to the 120-year-old toxic waste contamination, East Woburn citizens--who are particularly concerned about several children who have developed acute leukemia, liver cancers and other diseases-established an action organization "For a Cleaner Environmental" (FACE...
Perelman died two years ago, so until some biographer turns him into academic chopped liver, it is going to be hard to tell how much of the Perelman persona was Perelman himself. Until then, the only thing to go on is the 45-page autobiographical fragment "The Hindsight Saga," in the posthumous opus The Last Laugh which Perelman's publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman...
...Washington Irving High School, luck got her a bit part in a Broadway play and talent soon made her a star, first in the theater, then in films. She married and divorced an actor, then in 1935 married a Los Angeles surgeon, Joel Pressman. His death, of liver cancer in 1968, left her devastated. "He was my best friend," she says. "I had been hemmed in all my life, thinking that if I wanted to go somewhere, I couldn't. All of a sudden I was completely alone-my mother and my brother died not long after...
Anabolic steroids are synthetic male hormones that can give athletes an extra boost during training and competition. Though side effects are often severe-damage to liver, kidneys and reproductive organs-the drugs allow athletes to train harder and become stronger...