Word: yeasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From its headquarters in a converted yeast factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the staff of Bank Street College of Education views the nation's scholas tic trends with a certain justifiable smugness. Bank Street itself has for many years been a yeasty factor in one of U.S. education's newest preoccupations: the preschool teaching of young children. Now observing its 50th anniversary, the college suddenly finds its expertise in great demand...
...Manila to Maracaibo, Western capital and technology are at work today producing fertilizer, farm machinery, seed and pesticides-and teaching peasant farmers how to use them. They are also marketing new foods. In Colombia. Quaker Oats is promoting a powdered cereal that contains cottonseed flour, corn meal, sorghum and yeast to add body-strengthening vitamins and protein to diets in which their lack dwarfs and weakens millions of children each year. Minneapolis-based Archer-Daniels-Midland is shipping a protein-enriched powdered-soybean beverage to countries as far off as Korea. Corn Products Co. is working on hybrid seeds...
...nerve cell is not, as had been thought, a fixed and static structure, but one that continually forms new connections and breaks up old ones while producing biochemical substances to regulate faraway organs. In the hope of stimulating this neuronal activity, he tried feeding ribonucleic acid (RNA) from yeast to memory-deficient patients in Montreal (TIME, May 18, 1962). After he moved to Albany, he cast around for a better drug and hit upon Cylert, a combination of pemoline (marketed in Europe as a stimulant since 1956) and magnesium hydroxide. The compound apparently stimulates the brain's production...
...broken down biochemically into much smaller molecules before it can reach the brain. But a drug that increases RNA production in the brain itself might get around this objection. Psychiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, who has tried to improve oldsters' failing memories with injections of RNA from yeast (with still-disputed results), is now testing Cylert at the VA hospital in Albany, N.Y. Says Cylert's co-developer, Biochemist Glasky: "We are going to have trials on thousands of people and should know in about six months whether the drug is effective. But then it might take years...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...