Word: detectives
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Audubon Society President Elvis J. Stahr. With the figures the volunteers provide, ornithologists are able not only to check the health and vigor of different avian species but also to detect changes in their habitats, set up wildlife sanctuaries and even help airlines reroute their planes to avoid dangerous collisions with migrating birds. The bird count also acts as an environmental early-warning system. Recalling the canaries that miners took with them into coal mines to detect noxious fumes, Stahr explains that birds are usually quicker than man to react to changes about them. One example: the decline of many...
...Lasker jurors as perhaps the most important nonsurgical tool for heart diagnosis since the development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show an image of the heart pumping on a TV screen-all without surgery or other invasive techniques
...growing extent, the businessmen's pessimism is shared by the general public. A New York Times-CBS News poll released last week showed Carter's overall approval rating slipping to 55% in late October, down from 62% in July. Other polls detect an even deeper public malaise. Of the people surveyed by the California poll, only 29% thought Carter was doing a good job as President. The Har ris poll found in October that only 26% of the public approved of Carter's handling of the economy, down from 46% in May. Moreover, 54% of those surveyed...
...uninspired effort," said Harvard women's field hockey captain Lucy Wood, following the stickwomen's fourth tie in as many Ivy outings, a 0-0 "thriller" (please detect that ting of sarcasm) with Brown in lovely Providence (now you know for sure I'm being sarcastic...
...Bronx, N.Y., Yalow and her late collaborator, Dr. Solomon Berson, devised a sensitive new biological analytic technique called the radioimmunoassay (RIA). Using radioactive isotopes as tracers in the so-called immune reactions by which the body's antibodies combine with foreign antigens, the test was sensitive enough to detect exceedingly minute quantities of a substance...