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...remains the sabertooth. Stretching more than six feet from fangs to tail, the Nashville cat is one of the largest ever found. It is also remarkably well preserved; 70% of the animal's bones were recovered, most of them clustered together. Most intriguing of all is their age. Carbon 14 dating, arranged by Paleontologist John Guilday of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum, suggests that the remains of the Nashville sabertooth are a mere 9,500 years old. That indicates not only that sabertooths lived several thousand years longer than generally believed, but that they may well have coexisted with...
...implant the replacement often causes infection or deterioration of the jawbone. A promising new technique developed by the University of Southern California school of dentistry and the Vitredent Corp. of Los Angeles seems likely to overcome both problems. The empty socket is filled with a root replacement of vitreous carbon; then the false tooth is fastened to this foundation. Carbon, the base of all living matter, is compatible with human tissue and causes no rejection, nor does it break down under the pressures of chewing. U.S.C...
...problem. While the forward compartment's acrylic bubble acted as an insulator against the chilly (40° F.) sea, the rear compartment-where Link and Stover sat in light sports shirts and shorts-was quickly cooling off. The chill reduced the effectiveness of the chemical "scrubber," a sodium carbonate compound called Baralyme, which is used to remove exhaled carbon dioxide. To keep the chemical effective, the crew increased the air pressure inside the compartment...
...through portholes) inside the aft compartment while it was slowly depressurized; if the men were still alive, suddenly opening the hatch at sea level would have caused a possibly fatal case of bends. When the hatch was opened, the fears were confirmed: both Link and Stover had died of carbon dioxide poisoning. Heartbroken by the loss, the elder Link nonetheless vowed to continue his oceanographic work. "We're not going to stop," he said. "This [tragedy] shows the magnitude of the problem and the challenge...
Died. William Inge, 60, playwright and scenarist; by his own hand (of carbon-monoxide poisoning); in Hollywood Hills, Calif. In 1945 a Chicago production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie inspired Inge, then a St. Louis drama critic, to give up reviewing plays and start writing them...