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...passes through the ureters, bladder, urethra and, in males, the prostate gland before it is excreted, it contains cells sloughed off from all of these organs. To determine if any of those cells are cancerous, Sternheimer stains them with two dyes: a blue coloring that attaches itself to the nucleus of diseased cells and a red coloring that combines with all cell components. The malignant cells are not only differentiated by color but by the rate at which they take up the dye; they become stained before healthy cells do. Sternheimer's test must still be tried...
This fiscal year the Government is spending $1.4 billion on energy R. and D., nearly three times the amount authorized in fiscal '72 before the Arab embargo. Another $1.5 billion is proposed for fiscal '76, which begins in July. The nucleus of the effort is the Energy Research and Development Administration, a gangling bureaucracy set up only in January to pull together federal energy R. and D. programs...
Working clandestinely, he formed a nucleus of professional revolutionaries, creating a broader-based anti-Fascist movement, and organized strikes, set up an underground press and established relations with the international Communist movement. In 1949 he was caught and again imprisoned. When he managed to escape from the infamous Peniche prison in 1961, Cunhal had spent eight full years in solitary confinement...
Both perceptions are partly correct. The lobby in practice is a blend of a well-staffed professional nucleus in Washington and the normally undirected but highly effective outpouring of articulate and intense sentiment from Jews throughout the nation. Jewish contributions to political campaigns also build influential allegiances with legislators and other officeholders. The money can be pivotal in launching a new political career but is rarely critical to re-election except in states where Jews are heavily concentrated, especially New York and California...
...kitchen in Jordan J--one of the Radcliffe co-ops--is the late-afternoon nucleus of the house, where residents gather around the newspaper-strewn table for conversation and last-minute directions from the evening's chef. There is a feeling of low-key closeness as the 23 co-op members drift in to the airy dining room to share a meal which conspicuously lacks the plastic trays and cafeteria lines faced by most of Harvard's population each evening...