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...border line between the living and nonliving hovers a mysterious invisible substance: the virus. Some scientists think the virus is the most primitive form of life; others insist it is a heavy protein molecule, with complex chemical reactions, a kind of crystal which exists as a parasite on living tissue. But whatever the nature of the virus, one fact is certain: it is the foe of all living things, from microbe...
These good tidings meant that the recruiting quotas set last May would probably be reached in a few months, but those quotas are already out of date. Today's defense plans call for training 2,000,000 men to operate the complex machines of modern warfare. If the recent accelerated rate of recruiting could be kept up, it would take about six more years before 2,000,000 would be enrolled for training. The Army's only hope for getting that number in a reasonable time remained the Conscription Bill, over which Congress was scrapping last week...
Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...
...agree in principle to a bill to permit manufacturers to amortize the cost of Defense plants within five years which would give them reasonable protection. Then the President had qualms. Warned that many a Congressman would oppose outright concessions to Business, he had the amortization bill tacked to a complex limitation on excess profits. Net result: certainty that Congress will haggle over this hybrid measure for weeks, while key manufacturers, unsure of their future, remain unwilling to accept Defense orders...
...practical account. He once subsisted for five days on cottonseed meal, soybean oil and cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis...