Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racist, it would protest the meritocracy per se. Whether the lower classes were white, yellow, black or red would not make a damn bit of difference to SDS or to anyone who is concerned about the worth of human beings instead of skin colors. The position of SDS--were it honest--would be to protest human oppression even if all the oppressed were of one race...
Each test tube, embedded in dry ice, contains between 60 and 100 million cells of an individual species, usually grown from bits of skin tissue. Most of the samples come from animals Hsu believes are doomed to extinction. When that happens, their genes will be lost. Hsu's hope is that scientists of the future will be able to use the genetic "codes" locked in the cells of each species to reconstitute the original animals...
...years ago, Navy health officers came under fire while trying to take skin samples from a rare Vietnamese mole. On another occasion, a California biologist set out for a remote and desolate island off Southern California, which Hsu had heard was the only habitat of a certain rodent. The biologist's boat sank, and he was marooned for three days. He fed himself on bait he had brought for the rodents...
...into a multimillion-dollar empire by stirring life's losers with a bewitching fast-buck gospel. "All we're doing is showing people how they can make something of themselves," says Turner, a sharecropper's son who favors neon-bright suits, ivory-colored boots made of skin from unborn calves, and a rhinestone American-flag lapel pin the size of a calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred investigations: attorneys general and other authorities in 30 states have started legal actions against him or his companies. The Iowa Supreme Court two weeks ago barred...
...money began to flow in, and Turner was on his way. He contracted with Kolmar Laboratories in Port Jervis, N.Y., to turn out the Koscot product line, which now consists of 104 items ranging from nail-polish remover ($1.25 a bottle) to mink-oil concentrate, used as a skin softener, which is priced at $10 for a two-ounce bottle...