Word: liverence
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...will not desert him now." ··· "Anyone who drinks as hard as I did for 15 years might have expected something like this," said Sammy Davis Jr. "This" was the fact that he had just come "very close to dying'' of an enlarged liver. Vowing that he was off the sauce for life, Sammy insisted that he had not been an alcoholic, but he allowed that he "used to drink a lot of Coke and bourbon. I would get up on the set and start drinking before breakfast. I used to put away more than Dean...
...York Democratic Congressman William F. Ryan was told by a constituent about the dangers of PCB. Checking further. Ryan found studies showing that large amounts of PCBs had been discovered in the fish and sea birds of several countries. The studies also revealed that the compounds can cause liver damage in mice and disrupt the calcium metabolism of birds, which then lay thin-shelled eggs. Alarmed by the findings, Ryan delivered a House speech on PCBs. The Department of Agriculture responded by halting the use of PCBs-but only in pesticides. Then, despite complaints from customers, Monsanto announced that...
...potassium phosphate, sodium dithionite and saponin. Clouding of the solution is a danger signal but does not specifically identify hemoglobin S. If the first round arouses suspicion, a second test, also based on Murayama's work, is performed immediately. Urea, a natural waste substance produced by the normal liver, breaks some molecular bonds in abnormal hemoglobin. When urea is added to the solution that had shown a positive reaction initially, the liquid clears quickly if hemoglobin S is present...
...aimed more at breaking the Soviets by outspending them than by providing the U.S. with what it really needs for deterrence and defense. Unless this is done, says former Under Secretary of State George Ball, the U.S. economy is in danger of becoming "a Strasbourg goose with an overdeveloped liver...
...suspended. Time seems liquid, depth and risk meaningless-until Gimbel surfaces too quickly and doubles over with the bends. Above sea level, the film itself wears gills, fins and horns. It is amateurish and even a bit silly, with crises boyishly re-enacted by Gimbel ("I got the liver scared...