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...Paul's, each student takes one basic course-anything from Greek to college-level physics. Those who take one year of calculus or of Russian get no credit unless they return for a second year. In addition, all students take a "vitamin" course in rhetoric and English composition. The weekly work load: 24 classes of 50 minutes each, plus at least 20 hours of studying. Only after a student is chosen does St. Paul's consider whether he is able to pay the $600 tuition. Help from business and foundations enables some students to pay as little...
Finally Orville wound down, and color began returning to his cheeks. A reporter tried to break the tension. "Is this," he asked lightly, "the result of a vitamin shot this morning?" Said Freeman: "I did have a-what do you call them, a unipill? or univac?-vitamin pill at breakfast. Maybe that's it." Maybe it was, but it seemed more likely that it was just the bitter pill of being the current custodian of the scandalous U.S. farm mess...
Euglena gracille, a simple, one-celled organism--used in the laboratory to measure the level of vitamin B-12 in the blood of anemic patients--is now being employed in studies to determine the effect of metal deficiencies on nucleic acid and protein metabolism...
Normally found in ponds, the flagellate forms chloroplasts and carries on photosynthesis when exposed to light. It requires vitamin B for growth...
...authority of the director (in this case, Marc Daniels), Olivier did his job with quiet docility, making minor requests: he had his "brandy" changed from Coca-Cola to tea. But he soon became as exhausted as the fugitive priest himself, and called in a doctor to give him a vitamin injection (the doctor wrote out a bill for $15 and misspelled Olivier's name...