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From the most remote Brittany fishing village to the tiniest French Alpine hamlet, no local matter is too minor to escape the attention of the Paris government. The Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer wants to extend a street? It needs the signatures of the Minister of the Interior and the Premier before the asphalt can be poured. A poultry association in the small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with...
...thermometers and lowers it into a tank of hot water (100° F to 145° F), then into a tank of cold water (40° F), then into a centrifuge that squeezes out even the tiniest bubbles. Working with two dozen different boxes, it performs its ritual three times on each box in the course of a 394-step program that takes 7½ min. A simple routine, but it used to occupy 13 employees, and now only one is necessary. Says Plant Manager M. James Dawes: "I tell our people we've got to become more productive...
Throughout most of the 1960s, a handful of interferon enthusiasts continued working with only the tiniest amounts of material, gradually unlocking interferon's secrets. They found that it is a protein produced by cells in response to some stimulation, usually by a virus. To date, at least three varieties of IF have been identified. One kind is produced by leukocytes, or white blood cells. A second type is generated by fibroblasts, cells that form connective tissue in skin and other organs. (A prime source of fibroblast IF is the foreskin of circumcised infants.) The third, called immune interferon, is apparently...
...children. How more saccharine than a sweet tooth they are. Pity the poor darlings. All they do is beam and fawn on Mama. Exempt the tiniest tot, Tara Kennedy, 7, who puts on a sizzling display of stagewise expertise in a song-and-dance duo with George S. Irving. A born hamster, she's good enough to wake up the audience. So is Irving. As Uncle Chris, a cigar-chomping, whisky-swigging lecher, he, at least, colors the stage something other than its prevailing gray...
...chirped about this best world while stumbling through a series of catastrophes. Voltaire's doctor was an a priori optimist, and nothing that he saw or experienced could rattle his foolhardy faith. Thomas reverses this procedure and writes about things he has observed, grounding his conclusions in the tiniest material details that the world can provide. Because he has peered at nature's building blocks more closely than anyone but fellow biologists, and because he can translate his visions more gracefully than anyone but fellow writers, Thomas' good news about the human race is practically unique. Given...