Word: stainless
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Another scarce drug now bubbling out of Genentech's stainless-steel fermentation vat is human growth hormone, used to treat dwarfism. Only limited quantities have been available, most of it extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. In a test of the hormone, 20 youngsters are currently getting doses of bacterially produced HGH at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children...
...kitchen of Photographer Ara Gallant, being made up for the Italian edition of Vogue. Gallant's apartment is a good setting for Apples; the floors are white, with rivers of fake blood, the living room is solid black, and the dining room, where she will be photographed, has a stainless steel floor and walls made of thousands of tiny mirrors. The photographer, a wiry fellow from the South Bronx with a reputation for freaky brilliance, believes that a photograph should be "a lie with a small measure of truth...
Near Golden, Colo., at the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats plant, a technician pushes a red button marked REQUEST TRANSFER. Behind a 10-in.-thick concrete wall, a pair of claws reaches out to grasp a stainless steel container filled with pink powder, then lifts it into a furnace where it is baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium...
...delivered until June 1981, seven people have put down the required $10,000 deposit. American Express offers to let customers place the remainder on their credit cards. Drivers who still do not like to think about m.p.g. but are not up to a gold DeLorean might consider the stainless-steel model. It will cost about...
...rumors that real estate prices might have peaked received a setback last week, when Pan American World Airways announced that it was selling its octagonal Manhattan tower that looms over Park Avenue for $400 million. Completed in 1963, the 59-story aluminum and stainless steel-sheathed skyscraper leads directly into Grand Central Terminal and sits in the center of a midtown office construction boom. "To my knowledge," says John Robert White, chairman of Landauer Associates, Pan Am's real estate broker, "this is the largest price ever paid for a single urban building...