Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday annonuced the election of 104 graduating seniors to the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts. They...
Since animal society is essentially hierarchal, says Hediger, humans who face dangerous creatures in their cages should assume a super-alpha status-in other words, a rank above that of the topmost animal. If he fails to assert such authority, the zookeeper risks finding the animals as impudent, mischievous and eager to take advantage of any sign of weakness as school children with an unsure and inexperienced teacher. And the animals' pranks, Hediger adds dryly, can produce far more painful consequences...
...Jacques Gottlieb, of Detroit's Lafayette Clinic, told a tale of three laboratories: Lafayette, the Massachusetts' Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Institute of Psychiatry. Independently, each had discovered increased amounts of a component of the alpha-2-globulin fraction in the blood of schizophrenia victims. Alpha-2-globulin is a normal part of blood plasma, containing many proteins. In the blood of 60% of the schizophrenics studied by Gottlieb, the fraction was present at far-above-normal levels. The excessive alpha-2-globulin, Gottlieb theorizes, may perforate brain-cell walls...
...bomb's fail-safe systems have not been foiled even by shattering falls from high altitudes, as happened at Palomares. In that accident, two hydrogen bombs split open on impact and spilled plutonium, dusting nearby farms, which had to be tediously decontaminated. The same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h. winds of the dark...
...plan was to lower a "golden jewel box" to the moon's surface, dig an 18-inch hole with the spacecraft's mechanical arm and claw, then use the arm to put the jewel box in the hole. By bombarding the claw-dug moon material with alpha particles and measuring the speed and number of the rebounding particles, the 8-in.-sq. box could identify the chemical composition of substances beneath the moon's surface. Contamination by material from other parts of the moon and from meteorites would be avoided...