Word: parallels
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...cause them to be excreted, the body's automatic governor reacts to this loss by telling the liver to make more bile acids. To do so, the liver uses cholesterol already in the body as its main source of raw material, thus reducing the stored cholesterol. By parallel mechanisms, cholestyramine also appears to reduce the absorption of fats into the blood and their deposition at various sites in the body, including artery walls...
...TWISTY courses of an aspiring art, photography, and a suspicious science, psychic research, describe a rough parallel. Each is a creation of the first decades of the 19th century, each has been fostered by a succession of inspired amateurs, fuddled bunglers, sensational charlatans, and uncomfortable professionals. Each has survived a series of tumultuous popular vogues, and each today seems to have found tenuous public acceptance. Out of the black box and darkroom came what may really be the vital art of the moment. Out of the spiritualist's dim salon has emerged what may prove to be tomorrow's scientific...
...Changes in the Design School must parallel changes in life," Sert said. "With congestion, pollution, and unfit housing in our cities, the architect must team with a cleaned-up waterway--and visions of the utopian sewer society of the future looms before his listeners...
...even more, but only if the President is willing to call up the reserves and step up draft calls. Otherwise, the present force is likely to remain stable. To ease pressure on the Marines at the DMZ, the U.S. could stage an Inchon-style landing north of the 17th parallel, silence the guns that are raking Con Thien and Gio Linh, and pull out again. And, as the Joint Chiefs unanimously recommend, bombers could mine Haiphong harbor-a proposal that has consistently been rejected by Johnson, Mc-Namara and Dean Rusk. Were Haiphong choked off, argues Joint Chief Chairman General...
Search for a Gambit. To recoup some of the ground it has lost, the Administration last week was groping for a saving gambit. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that the U.S. would throw an electronic barrier across the 17th parallel to stem infiltration from the North (see following story), which could result in reduced bombing of the North and thus help to placate Washington critics of the war. At the United Nations, Ambassador Arthur Goldberg was trying to line up support for a new bid to the Security Council to undertake a settlement...