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Necessary Precedence. They were wrong. Environmentalists set up an outcry that such a massive explosion, five times as powerful as the previous Amchitka blast in 1969, might trigger an earthquake or, in case of a blowout, contaminate the area with radioactive fallout. Committees were formed, suits were filed, studies were conducted by Government agencies. Politicians, diplomats and strategists were consulted...
...Those people whom we saw seemed sincerely to understand that if no solution is reached by, say, the end of January, the continuing uncertainty may trigger a trade war," said Count René Paul Boël, of Belgium's giant Solvay chemical company. "Nobody wants a trade war, so I consider that there is a willingness on both sides of the Atlantic to push trade and monetary negotiations as fast as possible. I feel there is a real possibility of bilateral or other negotiations being opened on the subject of revaluation of currencies...
...discovery was significant. The newly identified substance proved to be a missing link in a long series of biological control mechanisms. Tests showed that hormones do not act directly on their target organs. Instead, they trigger the production of cyclic AMP, which in turn regulates body functions, increasing the rate at which some take place, slowing down the rate of others. "I like to call it a second messenger," said Sutherland of AMP. Subsequent research showed that his description is apt. Studies have established, for example, that when adrenaline output is increased by fear or anxiety...
...most startling example of Greene's youthful reaction to his existence is the game of Russian roulette he played, an episode also recounted in The Lost Childhood and Other Essays. On six different occasions he pressed a pistol to his temple, pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. He gave it up finally, not from fear, but because the excitement had gone: the game was no longer an effective antidote to the boredom which was the plague of his existence. It is here that we receive one of the few quick glimpses Greene allows us of his later life...
...TIME could hardly have been more correct on any political prediction than the one on "Scoop" Jackson in which it was suggested that he, if nominated, would of all candidates be "most likely to trigger a revolt, and hence a fourth party on the Democratic left...