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...feel like a snake," Wolff said. "The water slides off you so you get constantly pysched...
Subsequent experiments showed that the mysterious 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...
WORLD NOTES INDIA THE SNAKE IN THE GARDEN THE GUNMAN IN THE BUSH FIRST FIRED AT 7 A.M., SHORTLY AFTER HIS TARGET, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER RAJIV GANDHI, ENTERED THE CORDONED-OFF GARDENS OF THE RAJ GHAT IN NEW DELHI. THE SHOT WAS BARELY NOTICED BY THOSE ATTENDING OUTDOOR PRAYER SERVICES COMMEMORATING THE BIRTH OF MOHANDAS GANDHI, INDIA'S SPIRITUAL LEADER. INDEED, THE PRIME MINISTER'S ELITE GUARD CONCLUDED THAT THE NOISE HAD MERELY BEEN THE BACKFIRE OF A PASSING MOTOR SCOOTER. BUT AT 8:05, WHEN...
...first morning of the clinic, held at the Snake River Ranch at the base of the Teton Range, a small crowd gathers to watch the colt class. One tall, black-haired cowboy mumbles that he thinks it's all bullshit. Ray's eyes sparkle. "People come to me and say, 'I'm having trouble with my horse,' and the horse is saying, 'I'm having trouble with this person,' and I believe the horse every time...
...nation has been torn by civil war in one form or another ever since it began preparing for independence from Britain and Egypt in 1955. That year a band of southerners took up arms to fight for secession from Khartoum. In the 17 years that the Anya Nya I (Snake Venom) movement was active, more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya Nya II, and in 1983 it splintered further into the SPLA. As their leader, the SPLA members chose Garang, a former lieutenant colonel in the Sudanese army whose academic skills had taken...