Word: venoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenes are downright inexplicable. During one interminable aria, Sesto wrestles with a rubber snake, ties himself up with a garden hose, then connects the end of the hose to his arm. The program declares that Sesto is singing that, "The offended serpent never rests until its venom is spilled into the blood of the offender." Rubber hose, rubber snake, poison...nope, it's too subtle, I just...
...long it takes for a wavelength of light to travel from a cheese-steak on a countertop to one of those jelly-ball things in our skulls that allow us to detect such waves. The amount of time is exactly half the amount allotted to you before fire and venom spit horrifically from the Tommy's counterman in vehement objection to your negligence in retrieving your "food...
Subsequent experiments showed that the mysterious substance was also present in snake venom and mouse salivary glands. It was left to Cohen, a pipe-smoking individualist, to extract the first pure samples of the protein now known as nerve growth factor. Later, working separately, Cohen discovered epidermal growth factor, which governs cell development in the skin. He also located a protein on the surfaces of cells that acts as a receptor...
...been torn by civil war in one form or another ever since it began preparing for independence from Britain and Egypt in 1955. That year a band of southerners took up arms to fight for secession from Khartoum. In the 17 years that the Anya Nya I (Snake Venom) movement was active, more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya Nya II, and in 1983 it splintered further into the SPLA. As their leader, the SPLA members chose Garang, a former lieutenant colonel in the Sudanese army whose academic skills had taken him from...
...water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop), a portrait of Jesus that Elvis gave his parents when he was 15 and, for 50 cents, a photostat of the King's death certificate...