Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SALE: classic ditty; owned by the same family for 53 years; original condition; used only on special occasions...
...Point Barrow rescue attempt brought out the best in Americans in terms of esprit and ingenuity. Two young Minnesota entrepreneurs paid their own way to Alaska, quickly managing with a special de-icing device to calm the whales by enlarging the holes in the ice. But it also raised troubling questions about the human proclivity either to pretend that animals are more like people than they are or to treat them as mere commodities...
While the Americans concentrated on the inner workings of the cell, Black focused on "docking ports" used by chemical messengers moving between cells. In 1964 he developed a revolutionary drug for heart disease that blocks the effect of natural stimulants like adrenaline on special nerve receptors, or beta receptors, thus preventing the heart rate from increasing with damaging speed. Black's beta blocker is now widely used to treat heart disease and hypertension. Said Black with a laugh when he received the potentially overstimulating news: "I wished I had had my beta blocker handy...
...high spirits, Lederman was awed by receiving the prize. "There's something spooky about the Nobel," he mused. "It has its own special aura because of earlier winners, like Einstein and Enrico Fermi, whom we venerate...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...