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...toughest problems in biology is how to take a microscope picture of a healthy living cell. Most tissue cells, whether animal or vegetable, are transparent to ordinary light. To make them visible they must be stained, and the stain either kills them or sickens them. They can be seen with special ultraviolet microscopes, but strong ultraviolet is also deadly to cells; only the picture of a tiny corpse appears in the photomicrograph...
...Robert Barer of Oxford University, England, is sure he has licked the problem. He uses monochromatic (single wave length) ultraviolet at an intensity which is too low to hurt the cell. It is also too feeble to make a useful impression on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate, so Barer focuses the invisible image, enlarged with a reflecting microscope to about three inches in diameter, on a screen. Then, by means of a rapidly revolving mirror, he "scans"' the image, throwing the ultraviolet light from a narrow slice of it into a photomultiplier tube. The faint glimmer of ultraviolet...
Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
Captain McCarthy ordered 300 copies of the Lampoon's Saturday parody issue The Pontoon, seized from newsboys who were selling it on Boylston Street to the crowd headed across the river to the Stadium, He advised the magazine not to cell the issue locally, and by yesterday noon the last copies had disappeared from newsstands...
...game can be played by candlelight in an empty coal cellar, a padded cell, or other convenient room, and the apparatus can easily be improvised. At the outset, whoever can place the largest number of square pegs in round holes becomes the "Government." Then cards are dealt around. Each player in turn presents his card, which is marked "Coal," "Gas," "Transport," "Steel," or the name of some other industry. Then the "Government" player presents his trump card, "Nationalisation," and takes his opponents' cards, handing them scraps of paper of dubious value in return...