Word: blumberg
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...people most regularly involved with the Covenant also have full time pastoral or administrative duties and were unavailable for comment. The steering committee, which consists of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, Bishop Edward G. Carroll of the United Methodist Church, Rabbi Herman Blumberg of the American Jewish Committee, Luster, Fr. Ernest Serino of St. Catherine's in Charlestown, Fr. Walter Waldron of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, and Dr. Virgil Wood, dean of the African-American Institute at Northeastern University, still meets at rotating locations each Thursday to discuss ways to make...
...development of the vaccine began in 1963, when Dr. Baruch Blumberg of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia identified a protein from the hepatitis B virus in the blood of an Australian aborigine. Researchers soon found that the protein, dubbed Australia antigen, existed in large quantities in the blood of carriers. Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University then discovered that when infected blood serum is boiled, the virus is killed but the antigen remains able to induce production of the antibodies that prevent the illness. The experimental vaccine was developed by Virologist Maurice Hilleman of the Merck Institute...
...politics," Judy Blumberg's brother told me, and at first I thought he had to be paranoid...
...dancing preliminaries, where she later placed seventh. Reluctant to admit his sister was the best ice dancer in the United States, he was anxious to talk about how hard it is for American skaters to break into this traditinally European-dominated sport. "You gotta pay your dues," Blumberg said as the Russian champions executed their figures on the ice with an almost sterile precision...
...reality of the Moscow Olympics' imminent death at the hands of political intrigue hovered over the Lake Placied games, making evidence of political overtones all the more glaring. The blind eye the judges turned on Judy Blumberg because she "hasn't paid her dues--she's only been competing for two years," and the evidences of bloc voting again and again infuriated the seli-out crowd who booed Judy's low scores for five minutes...