Hemoglobin is an iron-containing protein found in the blood of nearly all vertebrates and many invertebrates. It transports oxygen from the lungs or gills of an animal to the tissues. Four polypeptide chains, each wrapped in a specific way around its own heme group, make up the hemoglobin molecule.
Correction Appended. Alger Hiss, the erudite diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer who was convicted of perjury in an espionage case that became one of the great riddles of the Cold War, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan.
LÃ¼ning was found guilty of espionage and executed in Cuba in November 1942, becoming the only German spy put to death in Latin America during World War II. Hemingway's patrols. Ernest Hemingway was living at his home, Finca VigÃ­a, in Cuba when the war began in 1939.