Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian bust, a gem-encrusted crown, raised to a magical, almost religious level by his extraordinarily vibrant brushwork and imaginative palette. "I'm withdrawing a bit," he says, "searching for what archaeologists call 'a find,' for the jewels we can dig out of us." His Salmon is such a precious relic-a dying fish preserved by the artist's reverent brush as a glowing emblem of life...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). The annual spawning run of salmon fighting their way up Alaskan rivers is detailed in "The Return of the Salmon...
Domestic and Cosmic. "Consider for instance the small scene just underneath the curve of the ceiling between the Prophet Jeremiah and the Sibyl Persica. This triangular picture shows the family of Salmon, one of the ancestors of Jesus. Here, the child leans upon his mother's knee and watches her cutting cloth with a big pair of shears. The pull of the fabric points your eye to something which is happening near by. Glancing up and to the right, you meet with the image in which God the Creator divides Light from Darkness. You are witnessing the same thing...
Clogging the Arteries. Both the pituitary gland changes and the loss of bone calcium in salmon are also familiar symptoms of aging in humans. "But in the fish," says Biochemist Trams, "the gland goes to hell in two weeks, a process that takes some 20 to 40 years in man." Thus the salmon makes an "ideal laboratory tool" for the investigation of geriatric ailments...
...salmon, Benson suggests, may eventually provide researchers with clues to methods for lessening the ravages of aging and with new knowledge of arteriosclerosis, which is caused at least in part by high concentrations of cholesterol in the bloodstream. In the ocean, the salmon has from five to ten times as much cholesterol in its bloodstream as a human can tolerate. "If we find out how the salmon manages to survive with this much cholesterol," says Benson, "perhaps we can help humans survive also...