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...current issue of Applied Optics, Entomologist Philip Callahan, of the Department of Agriculture, reports on delicate experiments with which he answered the question. Callahan caught some giant cecropia moths, which live in the woods, studied them under a binocular microscope and decided that it was tiny spikes at the base of their delicate, fernlike antennae that reacted to strong light. To check his theory, he blacked out the moths' eyes, painted each antenna black, except for the tips of the spikes, and ran minuscule wires into the main antennal nerves. Then he began subjecting them to light of varying...
...many neurosurgeons before him, Dr. George C. Stevenson had been challenged by that seemingly impregnable floor of the skull. While studying blood flow in the brains of monkeys, he had learned how to slice through the anatomical maze at the brain's base with the aid of a binocular surgical microscope, and he had practiced putting tourniquets on the basilar artery...
...grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident precision and his even voice snaps with authority, but his very words seem part of an alien language-a communication designed solely for his colleagues...
...Enders pondered while he puttered with cowpox virus in tissue cultures of chick embryo cells. Through an ordinary binocular microscope, he could see that the cells were damaged and began to fall apart as the virus multiplied. Others had seen this phenomenon; to the thoughtful Dr. Enders its significance eventually became clear and astonishingly simple: the nature and amount of cell damage were indexes to the nature and amount of viral activity. "It seems incredibly obvious now," he says...
...editors have full rein: "I've got people with a helluva lot more editorial ability than I've got, and I'd be doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys on the world's far horizons. It is an open Fleet Street secret that he has designs on the London Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,220,389), biggest and most popular of London's "quality" dailies. And he has far from satisfied his appetite...