Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substance was also present in snake venom and mouse salivary glands. It was left to Cohen, a pipe-smoking individualist, to extract the first pure samples of the protein now known as nerve growth factor. Later, working separately, Cohen discovered epidermal growth factor, which governs cell development in the skin. He also located a protein on the surfaces of cells that acts as a receptor...
While little is known about how growth factors work, there is no doubt of their importance. Doctors at Harvard Medical School use EGF to grow skin for grafting onto burn patients. Other growth factors may hold important clues about cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Cohen seemed surprised by the Nobel award. "You just keep on trying to find things," he said. "I'm very happy that the work we've been doing the last 25 to 30 years turned out to be important...
Some didn't make it, and they were burned alive, fire scorching the skin from their hands and neck and face, peeling their legs. Think of what it's like to burn alive. "Blacks are paying with their lives," announced one Black worker's union, "for the wealth and profits in which they do not share...
...recalled one of his most terrifying moments: "Suddenly there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came out of the darkness, a horrible fear of my own existence. Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient . . . a black-haired youth with greenish skin . . . That shape am I, I felt, potentially." This was the image of monstrosity that is only a chromosome away. Henry added another kind of apparition. In The Turn of the Screw he presented a governess and a ghostly valet who vie for the soul of a living...
...success. I've grown fat and rich by discovering the vast Bowl-a-Drome of the American psyche. But I still don't have the guts to buy a pair of lizard- skin boots, although I'd like some. It's just too much money to pay. Part of me would like to buy a really nice guitar too, but I know I don't really play well enough. I keep the price tag on my guitar to remind me. It cost...