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...brain, said Professor McCulloch, is made up of neurons (nerve cells) which are nothing more nor less than small electrical relays, each containing its own built-in power supply. The cells burn sugar to carbon dioxide and water, and use the energy produced to keep their outer surfaces electrically charged in relation to their interiors. The electrical tension (voltage) between the two parts is about seven-hundredths of a volt...
...drug looked like a good bet for alcoholics. Other anti-worm medicines (e.g., the common cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride) are sometimes fatally poisonous when mixed with alcohol. During the past year, two of Dr. Jacobsen's associates have treated 500 alcoholics with the drug; they called it "antabus" (from anti-abuse). By last week 450 of the patients still had a loathing for alcohol after only one dose of antabus...
Experimenters have used radioactive carbon to follow the fat through the veins of rats, and have detected it on their breath as fast as they could collect breath samples. Unfortunately, rats have been the only successful subjects. Humans who got the shots only developed a fever and had to be hospitalized...
...awful green," Alicia reflects. "And it was a 100-to-1 shot." The newspaper she created is no carbon copy of the Daily News. Its front page is loud, but inside pages are made up like a magazine, with every item dummied to the last line of type. She hates the tabloid habit of marooning bits of news among seas of ads. Newsday's ads don't get in the way of full columns of Long Island news, and the advertisers have learned to like...
Thus, the point we're driving at. Neither of the two teams can conceivably equal their prototypes. But either of the two teams can get closer to a carbon copy of the original. Therefore, somebody is going to lose, and somebody is going to gain tomorrow...