Word: regrowth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noticeably faster than the others. Painstaking detective work finally uncovered a possible explanation: the fast-healing rats had been eating food contaminated with compounds of zinc. To check their suspicions, the researchers experimented with 600 rats and confirmed that the presence of zinc in the diet aided rat-tissue regrowth after injury...
...invaluable for combat wounds, which, with today's weapons, tend to be larger than ever. The suggested explanation, said Major Pories, is simple. A tiny amount of zinc is present in enzymes, which are essential to the original growth of mammalian organisms and also, it seems, to the regrowth of destroyed or damaged tissues. In any case, said Pories, research may well indicate that extra zinc should be added to the diets of men going into combat-just in case they...
...been ruined. Little or no cane has been replanted for three years ; most fields have not been fertilized. Many of the ex pert cane cutters who normally harvest the crop are in the militia, and the "vol unteers" who replace them have hacked the stalks so badly that normal regrowth is stopped or stunted. In pre-Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which it got an average $500 million, most of it from the U.S. in preferential prices. Fortnight ago, Cuba's Minister of Industry, Che Gue vara, who, if nothing...