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.
Along with the seemingly unending rumors about Secret Service agents hiding President John F. Kennedyâs alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe (among others), Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Bill Clinton have all been implicated in affairs of their own.ore than a century after Warren G. Harding began an affair with a friend of his wife, the American public will be allowed to read the former president's love letters.