Word: stuffs
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Almost from the time of its accidental discovery by scientists in England in 1957, interferon has been the stuff of researchers' dreams. A complex bodily protein, it possesses both antiviral and antitumor properties, which means it could become an important new weapon against a wide range of diseases, from the common cold to certain cancers. But it takes 65,000 pints of blood to get just 100 mg (.0035 oz.) of the protein, so testing of the possible miracle drug has been severely limited. Now, as a result of another application of gene-splicing, or recombinant DNA, techniques...
Sweet, banal stuff but why write pages...
...simply a mixture of unleaded gasoline and anhydrous ethanol, which is 200-proof, water-free grain alcohol much like the stuff that gives the kick to gin and vodka. In the U.S., the mix is 9 to 1, but in other countries the ethanol content is higher to save even more oil. Brazil, for example, expects all of its citizens to be driving on gasohol with a 4-to-1 mix by the end of 1980, at a saving of about $500 million on its oil import bill. Moonshiners can distill a lower proof ethanol from such materials as corn...
...goes much deeper than male chauvinist attitudes," Shipley observes. "In music, a white woman has traditionally been set up to play a role for teen-age male fantasies." Mas reflects simply, "Record company people wanted me to do a Stevie Nicks or Blondie. You get a lot of that stuff." One reason for this is that Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac and Deborah Harry of Blondie have done very well, thanks, by trading on their nifty looks as well as their considerable skills...
...Right Stuff, Wolfe...