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...reasons were managerial, not medical. Administration officials feared that creation of the superagency would trigger demands for similar organiza tions to fight heart disease and other illnesses. That in turn might lead to the ultimate dismemberment of the NIH, which conducts a wide variety of medical and training programs. They also worried that the NASA-type agency proposed by Kennedy would rapidly develop its own constituency on Capitol Hill, where few Congressmen would publicly oppose rising expenditures aimed at curing cancer...
...company rules. In other cases, suicidal wishes have provoked murder-a phenomenon that the mother of Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Dwight Johnson may have recognized when she surmised that her son, shot while committing a holdup, had "tired of life and needed someone else to pull the trigger...
...piece of the pie, they're going to get a piece of the action. That means trouble." As Americans learned during the riots of the 1960s, however, ghetto violence explodes by a wholly unpredictable chemistry. The arrest of a cab driver was enough to trigger the 1967 riot in Newark. In New York last week, four policemen were gunned down-two of them fatally shot in the back, the other two critically wounded by submachine-gun fire into their patrol car. It is assumed that the shootings were racially motivated...
Doctors now replace lost or damaged vitreous with either natural material taken from donors, saline solutions, air, silicone or other synthetics. None of those materials is completely satisfactory. The synthetics sometimes trigger toxic reactions that lead to further eye damage, the air is soon absorbed, and transplanted human vitreous may provide only short-term benefits. Now a research team at Cornell University Medical College's Rogosin Laboratories has developed a material that overcomes all these problems. According to Dr. Michael W. Dunn, he and his colleagues are using collagen, a natural body substance, to replace lost or damaged vitreous...
...reverse the normal order of genetic transmission. Spiegelman's and Schlom's conclusion is crucial. Normally, DNA, the double-helix master molecule, produces RNA, which carries genetic information to the cell (TIME, April 19). But tumor viruses can use their own RNA to produce DNA, which may trigger the cancerous growth that is perpetuated in succeeding cell generations as the affected cell replicates and divides...