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When Swedish Chemist Sune Bergström started to do research on prostaglandin in 1947, almost nothing was known about the hormone-like substance, which had been discovered barely a decade earlier by his compatriot, Ulf S. von Euler. Even the name of the substance was based on the false assumption that it originates in the prostate gland. Over the next 35 years, with Bergström leading the way, researchers discovered that prostaglandin (PG) is not one chemical but a whole family of substances found in almost every tissue of the body. PGS, it was learned, are extraordinarily versatile...
Lloyd crushed compatriot Kate Latham, 6-1, 6-1 while McEnroe, his rhythm disrupted by several rain delays, overwhelmed fellow American Lloyd Bourne...
Britain's Transglobe Expedition is the first effort to circumnavigate the earth going over the poles, using only ground and sea transportation. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 38 (call him Ran Fiennes, his friends do), along with Compatriot Charles Burton, 40, and other team members, set out from Greenwich, England, in September 1979. On Easter Sunday, some 50,000 miles later, the adventurers raced the spring thaw to their penultimate destination, the top of the world. Though a hazardous voyage back to Greenwich over quickly melting ice still lies ahead, Fiennes was exuberant. He rammed a slightly frozen Union...
Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...
...looking for all the world like DeNiro in New York, New York) and Laureen, a neighboring bass player (Grace Shohet), arrive, an inner circle rears its head, signalling the end of the commonplace relationship which have gone thus far. And even then Niles himself (Brian McCue) arrives with his compatriot Paulette (Bonnie Zimering) and the play becomes a meditation on the mind...