Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps our "civilized" society could learn from the barbaric, not so civilized Syrians their effective and just method of dealing with criminals...
Blumberg, 51, of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research, identified a blood-carried viral particle, "Australia antigen," associated with a debilitating liver disease, hepatitis B. His biomedical detective work, involving an aborigine's blood, not only led to a method of testing potential blood donors for hepatitis but also paved the way for an experimental antihepatitis vaccine...
...Eliza's love and loneliness are conveyed in a slurry of short scenes, part science fiction, part dreamlike shorthand, whose allusions the author seems unwilling to share fully with his reader. Instead of ideas, he offers whimsy; instead of feeling, merely sentiment. Vonnegut calls his method "situational poetry...
Perhaps autopsy, the second scene's subject, sums up van Itallie's crude intent. The surgeon who coldly recites the method for penetrating a skull suggests the author's indirect way of probing minds. One tries to learn something about individuals after they have died, the other claims that Adam and Eve, Abel and Cain, prototypes who have never lived, can teach us something about ourselves...
...known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium isotope needed to construct the atomic bomb; it js now the standard method used to manufacture uranium...