Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cells (top), which have about 150 finger-Like protrusions on their surfaces, produce the antibodies that lock onto invading cells and other foreign bodies, making them more susceptible to scavenger cells. Tcells, which have only a handful of protrusions on their otherwise smooth surfaces, proliferate, flock to the site of an infection and attack the invaders directly, destroying them chemically...
Archaeologist George Michanowsky first came upon the strange, incomprehensible markings in 1956. Inscribed on a large flat rock in a remote bush region of Bolivia, they seemed to be connected somehow with an annual festival held on the site by Indians who gather from hundreds of miles around for several days of drinking and debauchery. Yet no one, including the Indians, could offer any explanation for this yearly orgy, which seemed to have its roots in the dim pre-Columbian past...
...Cross" star grouping in the constellations Vela and Carina-flanked by two larger circles. Michanowsky identified one of these larger circles as a representation of the bright star Canopus. The other circle, which was even bigger, had no existing counterpart in the sky. But it was approximately at the site of the invisible pulsar. Could the second circle be a primitive drawing of the supernova...
...current Federal housing moratorium.) The city should pursue code enforcement, but in a way designed to avoid dislocation of low- and middle-income families. The city should also prohibit conversions to smaller units, and should explore the potential for tax incentives for home ownership and improvement. New, scattered site housing has proven slow and difficult to build, but the city should continue to seek subsidy programs for this purpose...
...Mishima had written nothing else, his account of Honda's excursion to Benares, the holy Indian crematory site on the Ganges, would be considered a small masterpiece, on the order of E.M. Forster's visit to the Malabar caves in A Passage to India. Among the funeral burnings Honda finds an appalling filth and holy joy that amaze him: "A black arm would suddenly rise or a body would curl up in the fire as though turning over in sleep." The scene "was full of nauseous abomination, the inevitable ingredient of all times deemed sacred and pure...