Word: wacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime of passion, argued the defense. Paul Wacker, 43, a burly Frankfurt garage owner, had wheeled up to a curbside stand one hot summer evening for a glass of chilled Apfelsaft (apple juice). He left his newly acquired sweetheart at the roadside, but kept an admiring eye on her sleek curves while he sipped. Next to Wacker stood Josef Beinert, 35, a balding, bull-necked gas-station attendant, who soon made it clear that he had nothing but contempt for Wacker's beloved. Words led to shoves, shoves to disaster: Wacker whipped out a revolver and shot Beinert dead...
...only jarring note in Wacker's tragic tale of passion was the fact that his beloved is an automobile-a glossy black Mercedes 180. In car-crazy West Germany, justice takes such autoeroticism into sympathetic account. Last week Wacker was preparing to appeal a prison sentence of two years and seven months for "manslaughter with mitigating circumstances." Most Germans would applaud the lightness of the sentence. "My car is a very special friend of mine," explains one car owner. "It's like a human being. I talk to my car. I greet it in the morning...
...result," Dr. Wacker said, "was a doubling of the DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid] in the nucleus of the cell [a process that precedes normal cell division] although the RNA [ribonucleic acid] content of the cell was markedly reduced along with protein and zinc...
...This indicates," Dr. Wacker pointed out, "that there is mitotic arrest and a block in both RNA and protein synthesis resulting from zinc deficiency--a condition that is not reversed when other trace metals [iron, manganese, copper, magnesium and calcium] metabolic precursors or metabolites, are added to the nutrient solution in which the organism is grown...
...Apparently," Dr. Wacker concluded, "zinc may be required to maintain the functional and structural integrity of euglena...