Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though nature abhors the vacuum, businessmen have learned to regard it highly. By emptying air from sealed chambers to create a void, U.S. industry keeps the $16 billion electronics industry going, adds life to jet engines and makes the vitamins in cod liver oil easy to take. Sales of the machinery used to produce vacuums for industrial uses are growing 10% to 15% a year; awareness of the vacuum's almost limitless potential is growing even faster. Last week in Toronto this potential was probed at a meeting of physicists who specialize in working with vacuums. Though their esoteric...
...China's Politburo is even more decrepit: its average age is 65.) Former Member of the Secretariat Frol Kozlov, 55, was not on hand; the severe stroke he suffered last spring had dropped him from the front rank. Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 61, the victim of a kidney or liver ailment late last year, was back at the stand, invigorated, no doubt, by the heady air he had whipped up with his ideological attack on Peking last month. Khrushchev himself, at 70, appeared in fine fettle, although his own health problems have lately forced him to ease up on meat...
Missing Messenger. Pernicious anemia has remained a mysterious disease despite the finding that it can be controlled (though not cured), first by liver extracts and now by vitamin B12. Cornell University's Dr. Graham Jeffries began by studying the inflammation of the stomach lining that precedes pernicious anemia. This robs the patient of a biochemical messenger which normally conveys B12 through the digestive system to the body. In patients' blood, Dr. Jeffries reported, he has found antibody of a type that attacks the stomach-lining cells...
...Liver Shippers. From Puntarenas, on the Pacific Coast," saltwater fishermen set out to tackle big niarlin and sailfish, and each spring the river mouths along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast are choked with spawning snook and tarpon-so thick that thousands can sometimes be seen roiling the surface of the water. Where the school fish congregate, so do the predators-monster sawfish, and sharks, sharks, sharks. Using only hand lines, fishermen of the Caribbean village of Colorado last year caught 1,800 sharks in less than three months-and shipped the livers to Chinese medicine makers on Formosa...
Professor Davis teaches veterinary anatomy at Indiana's Purdue University. She began working about 20 years ago with a virus that causes what farmers call "big-liver disease" in chickens. Ten years ago, Dr. Davis developed cancer in her lymphatic system, and had heavy radiation treatment. She compared cells from her own tumors with those from chickens. Said Dr. Davis, with scientific detachment: "They were very closely comparable microscopically to the lymphoid chicken tumors with which I had been working...