Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lenin's Banner, official organ of the Moscow District party, bared the Great Nipple Shortage. Last week, after tracing the problem from drugstore to Kremlin level, a pair of reporters revealed that there is not a single soska (rubber baby-bottle nipple) to be had in all the Moscow oblast. Although last year's central economic plan called for the production of 30 million nipples, only 12 million were actually manufactured.* The crusading reporters declared that the only plant making surgical rubber was denied authorization to increase production by the planners...
...voice of the Mother Church, the Monitor has faithfully sermonized for all its 56 years. "In the most legitimate of senses," says Erwin D. Canham, 60, its editor since 1945, "the newspaper is a public-relations organ for the religion." But along with the Word, which many readers skipped, the Monitor used to offer some of the most deliberative news reporting in the U.S. It was an early practitioner of subjective journalism, filled with analytical and background stories, and it was on the skill of its commentators that the Monitor's reputation rested...
When the first entirely artificial heart is developed, it will probably be made of Silastic. This is the material that Houston's Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey used for the closest approximation to such an organ ever tried in a human patient. It was a substitute for the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, and it worked for 3½ days, until the patient died of other causes (TIME...
...heart is the first organ that the cold blood reaches after it is dripped in through an arm vein, and the heart is sensitive to cold. Excess chilling can easily cause it to stop or go into useless twitching (fibrillation) from which the patient may never recover...
Bacteria normally multiply by sexless fission-they simply split in two. Still, scientists believe that some kinds of bacteria occasionally manage a kind of sexual mating. It is almost impossible to catch them in the act, though, because they have no special sex organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that...