Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medal, 23, a senior majoring in education, to Fulton's course at Minnesota. "I was afraid of death and didn't like to think about it," she says. "But in taking the course I got to the point where I could look at death as a natural function of life." She was so moved by the experience that she organized a high school course on death. Other students have more personal reasons for studying thanatology. One woman, for example, took the course at Wayne State University in Detroit in the hope that it would help her talk...
...fluorocarbons highly inert substances that have the ability to absorb extraordinarily large amounts of dissolved gases performing the oxygen carrying function of red blood cells...
...Harlem. Director Barry Shear (Wild in the Streets) concentrates mostly on a hoked-up conflict between a fading police captain (Anthony Quinn, also one of the film's producers) and his black successor (Yaphet Kotto). Anthony Franciosa impersonates a notably dumb and vicious Mafia muscle man, whose sole function is to torture various blacks and die spectacularly, providing the audience with opportunity for plenty of indignation and vicarious, bloody triumph...
...leading health-food advocates (see box, page 72). But some of Davis' claims, as well as those of her fellow vitamin advocates, are still unproved. Doctors can find no conclusive evidence that vitamin C in large doses prevents heart disease or effectively treats cancer. Vitamin C's function as a cold cure is also uncertain. Its safety-if taken in quantities hundreds of times greater than the recommended daily requirement of about 60 mg.-is questionable. Though deficiencies of vitamin E will produce the symptoms of muscular dystrophy in rats, doctors are not yet convinced that such symptoms...
...success of the University Choir was no accident. Year after year, they turn out exceptional performances in the relatively unpublicized domain of Memorial Church. They are as excellent in a solo function as in their customary role as part of the Church's "ministry of word and music...