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...diet recommendations are fairly simple: "Eat less fat meat, fewer eggs and dairy products. Spend more time on fish, chicken, calves' liver, Canadian bacon, Italian food, Chinese food, supplemented by fresh fruits, vegetables and casseroles." Adds Keys: "Nobody wants to live on mush. But reasonably low-fat diets can provide infinite variety and aesthetic satisfaction for the most fastidious-if not the most gluttonous-among us." On such fare, Gourmet Keys keeps his own weight at a moderate 155, his cholesterol count at a comfortable...
...days old. They minced each sample finely and treated it with enzymes that made its cells separate without killing them. Straining the soupy stuff through a fine nylon filter, they removed all remaining cell clumps. Then they concentrated the isolated, mixed-up cells to a soft mush and deposited specks of it on the saclike "chorio-allantoic" membrane enclosing eight-day-old chick embryos...
After the bits of mush had been incubated for nine days, their jumbled cells arranged themselves in pretty good order. Getting nourishment from the blood supply of the membrane, they started to grow again. Kidney cells grew into a tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...
Weiss and Taylor do not know how a mush of isolated cells manages to rally and reassume its proper job in a developing embryo. But they are sure that no special guidance can come from the blood-supplying membrane, which acts the same in all cases. Therefore they say the individual cells of a partly formed organ must contain information that tells them what is expected of them. When they are separated and jumbled into a mush, they can reorganize and try to complete as best they can their part of the master plan of the vanished embryo...
...properly begun to hope, Wink begins to grope-with Virginia's wrist watch-at the local beach club. The assembled giddy-biddies pick the pair's backbones in whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want to. Indeed. Wink...