Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henderson for covering up the news of the massacre. And more importantly, publicity is finally arriving for Vietnam veterans who are announcing that American war policy is brutal and criminal. The Winter Soldier Investigations and this week's war crimes tribunals in Washington, D. C., should trigger the same curiosity as news about Calley...
...majority of genetic stigmas have somewhat more subtle symptoms and occur when defective genes fail to order the production of essential enzymes that trigger the body's biochemical reactions. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is caused by the absence of the enzyme necessary for the metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine; as a result, toxins accumulate in the body and eventually cause convulsions and brain damage. Cystic fibrosis, which causes abnormal secretion by certain glands and respiratory-tract blockage that can lead to death by pneumonia, is the most common inborn error of metabolism; it is believed to be caused by a deficiency...
...potential of the technique is already being tested by an international research team in the treatment of two children whose hereditary inability to produce the enzyme arginase had resulted in severe mental retardation. The team infected the youngsters with a natural virus, the Shope papilloma, which contains DNA that triggers arginase synthesis. Although the experiment is expected to produce no improvement in the children's mental condition, it may belatedly trigger the production of the missing enzyme and prove that viruses can carry beneficial messages to the cells...
...would one day be identified. Researchers are already convinced that schizophrenia has some genetic basis, although, as Psychologist David Rosenthal explains, it is not the disease that is inherited but a tendency to it. As a match must be struck before it will burn, so must the tendency be triggered by something in the environment. No one is yet sure whether the trigger is cultural or familial, electrical or chemical, but some investigators back the chemical theory on the ground that certain drugs enable schizophrenics to live outside institutions, at least for short periods. To date, drugs for schizophrenia have...
...Square even more is the way in which the old radio shows' linear style of plot development has been transformed into a fragmented form where the current vignette being enacted is interrupted by flashbacks to examine what has gone before, and where a single word in the dialogue can trigger the introduction of a set of man-in-the-street interviews on the subject in question. Besides having the form of an experiential montage held together by the relationships between characters, Harvard Square uses separation of recorded voices, sound effects, and background noises on eight tracks to add depth. (When...