Word: shields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even some of the most energetic enemies of Sentinel deployment say that they would subscribe to a comprehensive ABM program, notwithstanding the cost, if only they could be persuaded that it would provide an impermeable shield. Says Physics Professor Alvin Saperstein of Wayne State University: "It is not a question of trusting the Russians or the Chinese. You can't trust them. But I don't trust our own military not to lead us to disaster either. If I felt the ABM were effective, I'd live with the damn thing in my back yard. But it isn't." Thus...
...fell more than 100 miles behind. Then McDivitt began maneuvering back toward the suspenseful rendezvous and docking. Had they not been able to re-enter Gumdrop's cabins, McDivitt and Schweickart would have been doomed. Designed to operate only in the vacuum of space, Spider has no heat shield and would have burned up while re-entering the earth's atmosphere...
...years of failure, Griffith finally found an answer. Using a delicate technique that he describes as "more witchcraft than science," he began spraying his DNA samples with a thin coating of tungsten atoms. The tungsten film enhanced the outline of the complex molecule and was heavy enough to shield it from the electron beam. But it was not so thick as to obscure the molecular structure. The resulting pictures, which Biophysicist Griffith painstakingly developed himself to bring out maximum detail, show a blurred image that has been magnified 7,300,000 times. Fuzzy as they are, the pictures are clear...
...insight of the child victims themselves. Most of those more than four years old, although not told directly of the diagnosis, "presented evidence to their parents that they were aware of the seriousness of their disease and even anticipated their premature death." The parents of 14 children tried to shield them from the diagnosis, yet eleven of these children indicated their sense of impending death. Only two teen-agers were told that they had leukemia and that there was no known cure for it. As a result of frank discussions, both their families reported "a more meaningful relationship with their...
...five years of age who is dying of a terminal illness does not realize its seriousness. We have seen the pathetic consequence of the loneliness of a fatally ill child who has no one with whom he may talk over his concerns because his parents are trying to shield him. The question is not whether to talk about the diagnosis and prognosis, but rather how to let the child know that his concerns are shared and understood." It is important, say Binger and his colleagues, for the child to feel confident that he will not be deserted physically or emotionally...