Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles last month, Yalow described some recent work with lab animals. Using the radioimmunoassay techniques for which she won her prize, she and a co-worker at The Bronx, N.Y., Veterans Administration Hospital found a possible link between obesity and the shortage of a brain chemical. Grossly fat mice seem to have smaller amounts of the hormone cholecystokinin than their skinner littermates. In other words, the hormone may be suppressing rodent appetites. Tentative though those findings were, Yalow discussed them with the press. She had been uncomfortable ever since...
...Waikiki postponed its Aloha Week parade last October lest the road from the airport be blocked for the 15,000 delegates to the American Bankers Association (who spent $8 million in one weekend). Less sought after are religious sects, because their followers are often poor as church mice, and federal officials, who must live on the Government's average $35 per diem travel allowance. In between are teachers' groups which may be frugal but do meet in the industry's relatively slow summer and Christmas vacation months.* The only major conventions in New York City over the holiday weeks will...
...down the final 2:20, the garba ge time points closing the gap to respectability. But on the plane ride back home this morning. McLaughlin will no doubt still be muttering over the disputed call. He won't be whistling Dixie, but he just may be humming 'Three Blind Mice...
Cosmo convinces Victor (Lee Canalito), the brother long on muscle and short on brains, to make them some money by fighting at a wrestling joint, Paradise Alley. He is the familiar good-natured idiot, in the vein of Lenny in Steinbeck's Of Mice...
Still, the mice are not clones. They each contain not a full set but two identical half sets of one parent's genes. But if the process is repeated with one of these mice, the new daughters would be clones of each other and the mother...