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The gamma-1 compound normally serves an entirely beneficial function. In this case, however, it also attaches itself to the cancer cells. But is unable to pierce their outer membranes.
The Third District Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Wrote Judge Fred R. Pierce: "Our reversal is upon the grounds that plaintiff's widely advertised name and well-known senior use of the name had given it a 'secondary' meaning and that junior use of even a...
To test his theory, Pierce and Arthur Whitson, a co-worker at California's Stanford Research Institute, spent''four weekends in four different bathrooms. After setting up a field mill-a device that measures the electric field in the atmosphere-they turned showers on and off, flushed...
Cool Reception. According to Pierce and Whitson, the atmosphere of a bathroom is electrified whenever water is running. The charge varies from a high negative field during a shower to a barely noticeable charge when a toilet is flushed. Water that falls into an empty tub produces a higher charge...
"Amusing, but not entirely appropriate," huffed one scientist in the A.G.U. audience, which greeted the bathroom research with polite but restrained applause. Pierce was unruffled by the cool reception. "If I had said that these were experiments on the breakup of water and had set it up as a laboratory...