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Commoner's work relies heavily upon a test devised by Dr. Bruce Ames of the University of California at Berkeley. Ames found that certain carcinogens were capable of causing mutations in bacteria. This suggested to Ames the possibility of using mutagenicity, the ability to cause mutations, which can be...
To determine the correlation, Commoner and his Washington University colleagues tested 92 chemical compounds on strains of the common bacteria Salmonella typhimurium, developed by Ames. Each compound was made up in three different concentrations and mixed with preparations made from seven different rat tissues (liver, kidney, brain, stomach, lung, spleen...
Out on a pass to attend a welding class, Taylor talked his way into a Detroit woman's home, then raped and robbed her. By the next year, out on another pass, he threatened a rooming-house manager and her daughter with an 18-inch butcher knife. He was...
Huge Cylinders. This summer two dozen specialists, including O'Neill, will convene for ten weeks at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., to study the practical problems of getting the enormous project into orbit. Meanwhile, O'Neill, 48, is energetically continuing to press the...
Unfortunately, no profound love affair elevates the entertaining production of Arms and the Man that was launched at the Loeb main stage last week. Director Evangeline Morphos takes care of that early in the first act when, in a neat libidinization of the bloodless original stage directions, she contrives that...