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Spectacular and ever increasing jumps in the price of man's most treasured metal have become almost routine: from $400 per oz. in October to $500 in late December, to $600 in early January. Last week gold left even its most frenzied boosters gawking in astonishment. In five wild and erratic trading days it leaped by an incredible 34%, closing the week at $808 in New York, at $823 in Hong Kong, $835 in London and Zurich...
Last week other precious metals continued to share that positive attraction. Silver, which has been climbing along with gold, rose during the week from $39 per oz. to $47. Platinum, the costliest precious metal of all, and one with many high-technology uses as well, climbed to yet another record of $918 per oz...
...dreams. A complex bodily protein, it possesses both antiviral and antitumor properties, which means it could become an important new weapon against a wide range of diseases, from the common cold to certain cancers. But it takes 65,000 pints of blood to get just 100 mg (.0035 oz.) of the protein, so testing of the possible miracle drug has been severely limited. Now, as a result of another application of gene-splicing, or recombinant DNA, techniques, all that may change. In Boston last week molecular biologists announced that they had induced tiny bacterial "factories" to copy human interferon...
...report also emphasized that pregnant women who smoke risk spontaneous abortion and neonatal death, and that their babies weigh an average 200 gm (7 oz.) less than those of nonsmoking mothers. And though smoking among both men and women overall has declined, young women between 17 and 24 are now outsmoking their male peers...
...athlete whose performance seems unusually good. In individual events, the first four finishers will be tested, as will two or three competitors chosen at random. Within an hour after the event, the athlete will be sent to a testing site where at least 50 milliliters (less than 2 oz.) of urine will be collected. The sample will be sent to the laboratory in two bottles: one will be stored in a sealed box in a refrigerator; the other specimen will be analyzed immediately. The urine will be placed in the gas chromatograph, which separates out constituent elements...