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Friday, November 18, 2011

STANLEY BEN PRUSINER

Stanley Ben Prusiner

Stanley Ben Prusiner was born May 28, 1942 was born in Des Moines, Iowa and spent his childhood in Des Moines and Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Walnut Hills High School. Stanley is an American neurologist and biochemist. Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein.

He Early life and career was very important, he recived a lot of award. Prusiner received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his prion research. Prusiner then completed an internship in medicine at the University of California,
After three years at NIH, Prusiner returned to UCSF to complete a residency in neurology, San Francisco.

The prices that Prusier won there are this ones:
 
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997  
- National Academy of Science in 1992
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in1993,
- The Royal Society 1996 
- The American Philosophical Society 1998 
- The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 200
-  The Wolf Prize in Medicine from the Wolf Foundation/State of Israel 1996
- The Gairdner Foundation International Award 1993  
- The National Medal of Science 2010
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997
 


 I chose this person because in my point of view Stanley is very interesting for all the peolple because what he did

Monday, November 7, 2011

We written this story in the ICT's class. We write 8 stories. 4 or 5 lines each group. Here you have the original story.

                                          THE ASESINATED

Once upon a time, in a rainy day Henry was at home. He was watching a horror film on the TV with his friends Mark and Tom. They were eating pop corns when the light went out and the door bell rang. They were very frightened no one dared to open the door. Finally, the bell stopped and Henry decided to call to his parents, but they didn’t answer it.

Nobody wanted to open the door, so they decided to open it all together. They opened the door but they didn’t see anything, and suddenly the telephone rang. Henry picked up the phone, and a strange voice was saying that he was inside the house and that he would kill all of them. As they didn’t know what to do, the three of them stayed all the time in the kitchen with knives to protect themselves.


But the time was running and nothing happened,they left the knives on the floor because they thought that it was a joke and they started sleeping.When Henry woke up, Mark and Tom were not in the kitchen, Henry started shouting but nobody answered. He was scared and then, the telephone rang, he picked it up;it was the same person.


This time, the same person said to Henry that he had Tom and Mark kidnapped and Henry was very scared and he didn’t know what to do. Suddenly, he got crazy and he went to the kitchen and he got a knife and he inserted it in his heart. When Henry’s parents, Tom and Mark, arrived at the house they started laughing, because they knew that it was a joke, but when they went into the kitchen they saw Henry with a lot of blood around him.






All them got astonished when they saw the horrible situation. The police started investigating the case.The family was terribly sad but with the time they assumed the loss. Their life was going forward until they received an anonymous call with a men voice. The joke was a not real joke, the telephone killer had appeared again.


The killer called to them again, and he said that one of them had to kill the other, because then the killer was going to kill both of them, and Tom and Mark looked to each other and they started crying. Tom didn’t want to die, so he went running to the kitchen and he took a knife, and Mark said to Tom that he couldn't do that, but Tom didn’t listen to Mark and when he was going to kill Mark... he make up all was a dream.


So Henry woke up, he went to the bath, he wet his face, he went to the kitchen and he drank a glass of water and he get back to bed. But then, he heard a strange noise and he phoned Henry. When Mark arrived, the lights of house went out and they enter in the bathroom to protected because they were very scared. But...


The killer have lot of material to detroyed all that he need, and he destroyed the door and Mark was there, so the killer take a rope and he bone him with rope. When the light switch on, Mark was in one strange fourth. Suddenly the killer appeared he tortured him. Finally the killer kill Mark, then the killer went to Tom and he do the same with him.