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...researchers who first isolated somatostatin needed nearly half a million sheep brains to produce 5 mg. (.00018 oz.) of the substance. Using their recombinant DNA technique, the California researchers required only 2 gal. of bacterial culture to obtain the same amount...
...public-and it only confirms and elaborates the worst suspicions about his decline and death. According to sworn testimony from his personal aides and doctors, Howard Hughes became addicted to the tranquilizer Valium. As a total recluse living in a series of penthouse hideaways, he popped large-dosage 10-mg. blue tablets, which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they kept on his activities. On many occasions, Hughes gulped as much as 40 mg. at one time, a dosage that exceeds even the recommended daily medication for agitated mental patients. After...
...Fixing a standard dose so each tablet of aspirin or acetaminophen for adults contains 325 mg. and those given to children 80 mg. The panel pointed out that such standardized quantities will not only help avoid misuse of the drugs but also assure consumers that they are getting the same quantities of analgesics in different brands...
There are as many reasons to love Trollope as there are people who read him. High on the list is his magical ability to soothe: by rough and arbitrary calculation, 25 pages of Barchester Towers are equal to a 5-mg. Valium, while 15 pages of Can You Forgive Her? are worth two Miltowns. The intricate struggles for power within the Anglican Church and the Victorian crises of conscience are interesting but not unduly exciting, absorbing but not all-involving. Best of all, the stories go on seemingly forever and satisfy the modern taste for family sagas -just look...
...each country prefers to keep its own scientists and production workers employed on technologically advanced programs. Even so, there have been some encouraging steps. Among them: a new rocket mine-laying system that will use a U.S. mine and a West German rocket, the U.S. purchase of the Belgian MG-58 machine gun, the interchangeable key components of the new U.S. XM-1 tank and the West German Leopard II tank...