Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced its own opiates. In 1975 they discovered and isolated two such compounds from pig brains and dubbed them enkephalins (from...
...around Venus, and in addition to scanning the atmosphere below with an array of instruments, it will beam powerful radar signals through the Venusian clouds and bounce them off the surface. Pioneer 1 will then radio the radar data back to earth, where scientists hope to produce a topographic map of 35% of the hidden Venusian surface showing details 100 meters (330 ft.) high and 16 km (10 miles) across. Earlier radar scans of the surface by the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, indicate that Venus is pockmarked with craters, possibly active volcanos and great lava flows...
...turn out to be the literature of dope, double-cross and revenge. The best of the current thrillers, many by little-known writers, reflect a move out from the cold war caper to a wider, well-plotted world of skuldruggery and high technology. The new books cover the map from Cozumel to Copenhagen, the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea. Their post-Bondian hardware ranges from a Guppy-class submarine to the world's biggest tanker, the Dragon M-47 antitank rocket to the Soviet Dragunov rifle. In most cases, the hero is motivated by the heroin, but there...
...Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented the plan...
...laughed; it was a virgin and a king and a samaritan and it mourned. It was fettered to its passions and ruled whole nations. It fumed at fortune and men's eyes and celebrated its own appetites. It passes still, and the writer who sets out to map the plays and poems ends, as Critic Leslie Fiedler once did, with "not another book about 'Our Shakespeare.' but one about 'Shakespeare...