Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant chromosomes used in his research project were only one thirteen-millionth of an inch across and would be agonizingly difficult to distinguish even with the aid of the most powerful electron microscope. In addition, the molecules would be distorted or destroyed by the instrument's electron beam before they could be photographed. Then how could they be photographed...
...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 enough to reveal...
...organized the Universal Life Church in order to propagate his rather idiosyncratic faith. "I believe heaven is when you have what you want and hell is when you don't have it," he explains. "I believe in reincarnation, an eternal beam in your body that moves from one body to another...
Using an instrument called the geodimeter, Hofmann aimed a beam of in tense light from a site on one side of a fault at a reflector set up on the other side, between twelve and 20 miles away...
...twaddle of all establishments, whether founded upon outworn socialist unrealities or rampant democratic rhetoric. Arlecq puts in a stint as a government guide, conducting a party of Indonesian comrades from Goethe's shrine in Weimar to the Buchenwald concentration camp where, in spite of his efforts, the Indonesians beam and smile, mistaking it for a prehistory museum. He also works as an interpreter at an international conference. When the Cuban spokesman takes the floor, Arlecq switches off the sound and improvises: "The general theme was as simple as a school essay: Cuba and North American imperialism . . . When Arlecq switched...