Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But they are, like wrinkles and gray hair, most commonly a natural byproduct of the aging process. The normal lens of the eye, located behind the iris, consists of clear protein encased in a capsule. Cataracts are changes in the molecular structure of the lens protein that cause it to lose its natural transparency and gradually become opaque...
...climb. Illiterates bought their copies and then waited patiently for public readings of their hero's latest adventure. Taking advantage of the strip's popularity, the government hung posters of the Phantom in villages to drive home its pleas for tooth-brushing and the substitution of protein-rich peanuts for starch in diets (the natives swiped the posters for the walls of their huts...
...McCarty, a Rockefeller vice president and professor of biomedicine. The Chinese were well informed about what their Western colleagues were doing. They religiously read such scientific publications as the British Nature and the U.S. Science. The visiting scientists were impressed by the work the Chinese have been doing in protein synthesis, in the use of insect and viral agents to replace chemical pesticides, and in trying to find the scientific basis of acupuncture as an anesthetic. Says Biophysicist Floyd Ratliff: "Their work in neurophysiology is very good, comparable to that in the West...
...most serious charges were leveled against Richard C. Groover, Edward A. Arnold and Robert N. Meyer Jr.-all traders in soybeans, the protein-rich legumes that have brought great wealth to farmers and speculators. The three traders were accused of the long-forbidden practice of "bucketing." A bucketing broker takes a customer's order to buy or sell soybeans or other commodities but, instead of making the transaction on the open market, the trader arranges a private rigged deal that can bring him an illegal profit. If proved guilty, Groover, the alleged ringleader, could face up to 128 years...
...great virtues of running is that it makes dieting unnecessary. A mile run in eight minutes, which is a good hacker's pace, will burn roughly 100 calories. Faddists' diets and food additives such as protein powders have their adherents, but experts are nearly unanimous in saying that normal, balanced meals, easy on the fats, will sustain a runner perfectly well. Marathoners have taken to loading up on carbohydrates for several days before a race, to pack their bodies with glycogen, but since it takes about 20 miles to run through a normal supply of glycogen, spaghetti...