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...mascara, eye shadow and pancake makeup on shaved areas of rabbits or guinea pigs to test for irritating effects. The neotoxic age has brought DDT and still more lethal sprays, some of which stay on fruits and vegetables all the way to the dinner table. FDA permits only the minutest residues, has devised tests that will detect less than a billionth of an ounce of pesticide...
...with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered, and its flesh . . . may not be consumed by Jews. [Slaughtering must be carried out] by an educated, refined and cultured man, known to be God-fearing...
...accomplishment of Enders & Co. came because it served as a steppingstone for Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29), who developed the actual polio vaccine. But to Connecticut-born John Enders, the polio virus discovery is an incident in a life dedicated to battle against the minutest and most insidious of man's microbial enemies, the viruses. To find better ways of combating such children's diseases as mumps, measles, chicken pox and polio, it was necessary first to find better ways of growing the offending viruses in the test tube. The polio virus...
...plain purpose of these committees is particularly reprehensible: subpoenaing witnesses in order to entrap them by interrogation into the minutest details in the long distant past and not their political beliefs so as to subject them to contempt or perjury indictments. The most notorious example is that of the Internal Security Subcommittee in the Lattimore case...
...Even in tiny doses, hormones are enormously powerful. And in the minutest quantities, radioactive elements can be "watched" as they travel through the body. To combine these two virtues in a single substance, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases is sponsoring a project to manufacture about one gram (1/30 of an oz.) of radioactive cortisone. The Institute will put up $66,000 for Montreal's Charles E. Frosst & Co. to do the tricky manufacturing job of building cortisone with an atom of radioactive carbon-14 in Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research...