Without agar, countries could not produce vaccines or the “miracle drug” penicillin, especially critical in wartime. In fact, they risked a “breakdown of [the] public health service” that would have had “far-reaching and serious results,” according to Lieutenant-General Ernest Bradfield. Extracted from marine algae and solidified into a jelly-like substrate, agar provides the surface on which scientists grow colonies of microbes for vaccine production and antibiotic testing. “The most important service that agar renders to mankind, in war or in peace, is as a bacteriological culture medium,” wrote oceanographer C.K. Tseng in a 1944 essay titled “A Seaweed Goes to War.”3
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“有没有偏离共产主义远大理想和中国特色社会主义共同理想，有没有背离全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨，有没有游离党的路线方针政策和党中央重大决策部署，有没有脱离国情和本地区本部门实际”。
Любовь Ширижик (Старший редактор отдела «Силовые структуры»)