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...drug is L-dopa, short for Levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine. The rationale for its use lies in the fact that the brains of Parkinsonism victims are deficient in dopamine, a natural body chemical essential to normal nerve activity in the midbrain. So, researchers reasoned, why not give the patients extra dopamine? The trouble is that dopamine cannot cross the natural barrier be tween the bloodstream and the brain to reach the deprived cells. But dopa, an amino acid that comes in three forms including L-dopa, crosses the barrier by a process not yet fully understood. It is broken down...
...rents. An apartment-building own er can seek a "hardship increase" under rent control if his income fails to amount to a 6% return on his invest ment, plus 2% for depreciation. Having agreed to pay $90 million for the property, Helmsley will be in a position to make use of the hardship proviso. "Then," he adds, "we're going to put in new wiring, which brings another increase...
...use Brasselle's own fractured English, The Cannibals is "self-servicing." That is clear enough from the author's portrayal of the first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...
Workmen are constructing a three-foot indoor fence around the reserve section which will force students who wish to use reserve books to get them from a member of the library staff...
Members of the University have previously been able to use books inside the library without signing them out. Under the new system, which will be like the one now used in Lamont, only library staff members will be able to enter the reserve section, and all books will be signed...