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...patient's blood, early diagnosis should be easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
Soekarno, like thousands of other young Indonesian intellectuals, was a wavering moderate in his opposition to Dutch rule. In 1926 the Dutch made a major blunder. In suppressing a Communist uprising, they exiled 4,500 Indonesians, without trial, to New Guinea. Soekarno became an uncompromising (but nonCommunist) nationalist, reached out for power, achieved a considerable following before being exiled to Flores Island...
Prizes to Find. Other prizes lie in New Guinea, where stone-age" fuzzy-wuzzies, ignorant of the outside world, live in high, cool "white man's country...
...response curve of the Cobra is the result of more than three years' experimentation and hundreds of listening tests. Our human guinea pigs ranged from factory workers to outstanding musicians. We decided on the curve we finally adopted when the nonmusicians voted "Swell" and some of the musicians heard in old records nuances and even instruments that they had never known were there...
...year course, which leads to a Master's degree, opened up this September after 32 consecutive months had been consumed on the drawing boards. Fourteen graduate students are the guinea pigs testing this new approach to the problem of learning all there is to know about an alien land and culture...