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...biotech firm in Palo Alto, Calif., held exclusive rights to sell that particular type of hormone sample, known as human recombinant relaxin...
...that became Prestige, home to some of jazz's greatest musicians; in Boca Raton, Fla. He encouraged his artists to record long, unrehearsed jams. Among the results: the 1956 John Coltrane-- Sonny Rollins saxophone duet Tenor Madness and the seminal four-album series Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin...
...three bases -Abaco in the Bahamas, Tortola in the B. V.I. and St. Vincent, far south in the Windward Islands. Last year about 31,000 people chartered from these firms. To discover the joys-and tribulations -of bareboating, TIME Senior Writer Robert Hughes recently spent ten days sailing Relaxin', a C.S.Y. Carib 39, through the Grenadines. His report...
...understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what he's tippy-toeing down there...
From Sow Ovaries. The chief drawback now is the scarcity of the raw material. There is no way of extracting relaxin from pocket gophers, and it is present in some bigger animals in only negligible quantities. But for some reason that researchers (including Dr. Hisaw, now at Harvard) have not fathomed, the ovaries of the pregnant sow are the best source. Fortunately some sows are pregnant when slaughtered,* and from 110,000 lbs. of sow ovaries a year the laboratories extract 100 ounces of Releasin. This is enough for seven injections for each of 18,000 patients-fewer than...