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...Pump People. The part had already been turned down by, among others, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Geraldine Page, either because they considered the character, the steel-tempered nurse, offensive to women or because, on a more practical basis, the role was neither as large nor as strong as McMurphy's. Fletcher was not in a position to be choosy. At 41, she had appeared in only one previous film (a supporting part in Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us) and, indeed, had dropped out of acting almost entirely after making a bright start in television...
Part of the reason for the shift in taste is that the public has got over its fear of gas shortages, become inured to pump prices of more than 50? per gal., and is willing to spend a bit more for a larger car. In any case, the decline of the subcompacts, which usually carry sticker prices of $2,900 to $3,400, is striking: from 10% of the market just after the embargo to 7.7% now. While inventories of most other cars are sufficient to supply only 60 days of sales, dealers have a 100-day supply of Ford...
...through the New York financial community. According to Wall Street sources, the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia, where Aramco has transformed a section of Dhahran into a small American-style town for its employees, will remain as strong as or stronger than ever. The oil firms will continue to pump most of Saudi Arabia's oil as contractors working for a fee. The Saudi government will give them a long-term guarantee that they can buy a fixed proportion-amount unknown-of Aramco's output, currently 7.5 million bbls. per day, and will grant a discount...
Continuing his research after transferring to California in 1967, Stoeckenius found that the pigment, called bacteriorhodopsin, functioned as a sort of pump, converting sunlight directly into electrochemical energy. Light striking a pigment molecule causes it to eject a hydrogen ion-or proton-that passes through the cell's membrane. The movement of the positively charged protons through the membrane leaves an excess of negative charge on one side of the membrane. That produces a voltage gradient and results in an electrical current flowing through the membrane. In the process, which involves at least five separate steps, each bacteriorhodopsin molecule...
...reported that researchers are already experimenting with bacteriorhodopsin in efforts to build a photoelectric cell. Stoeckenius also believes bacteriorhodopsin's chemical similarity to visual purple could help scientists better understand the basic processes of vision and could offer new insights into cell biology. "All living cells need to pump ions across their cell membranes," says Stoeckenius. "It seems to me that we are close to discovering certain basic cellular functions...