Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny South American republic of Ecuador, Vicente Levi Castillo is the hero of the wealthy taxpayers. A political pal of Ecuadorian President Otto Arosemena, Levi Castillo, 35, is a former Deputy in the Constituent Assembly, which has just completed a new constitution for Ecuador. It was in the process of losing his status as Deputy that he was elevated to the position of hero. Today his popular title is "the Dynamite Man of Ecuador...
...visualize the overall inflammatory process," said Dr. Glenn, "as a wave or chain of cellular destruction." The first result of injury is to cut cells open, in the case of a stab wound or burn, or to weaken their membranes, in the case of many infections or poisoning by plants or animals. Either way, powerful chemicals that had been locked inside the cells, some in leakproof packages, spill...
They start a chain reaction by breaking down other parts of the damaged cells and releasing more active substances, such as histamine. At first these constrict the blood vessels, to minimize bleeding, and initiate the clotting process. But they damage the vessels' walls, causing dilation and rubor, and letting out white cells and antibody proteins. Fluid oozes from blood vessels into the tissues, causing tumor and dolor. Biochemical signals sent through the blood and lymph systems call for the production of more infection-fighting white cells and antibodies. If the threat has been great enough, the inflammation suffuses...
Finally, they assert that they have the right to participate in shaping the process which so shapes them. They suspect the Establishment of trying to thwart their innovative tendencies, they understand the corruptive effects of power, they believe they must participate in changing the system before it swallows them...
...even if Vietnam Summer fails in its practical objective of significantly increasing pressure on the government to end the war in some unmilitary manner, it will have had the effect of carrying on a process that has been evident throughout the past year. Just as the Harvard chapter of SDS was able to attract a surprisingly large number of members this year because of the dearth of any other serious anti-war groups in Cambridge, so too should Vietnam Summer serve the purpose of involving moderate and formerly reluctant students with more radical forms of anti-war political protest...