Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Harvard Medical School scientists are urging the Federal government to set up a national screening program to detect possible cancer in women whose mothers were given a hormone-like drug during pregnancy...
...signed by the heads of state at the Moscow meeting. This first step is expected to include a limitation on anti-ballistic missiles to just two sites for each power, and a freeze on intercontinental ballistic missiles. Compliance will presumably depend upon the ability of satellite surveillance to detect violations...
...studies of such chance phenomena as incidence of telephone usage, highway traffic patterns and even the lineup of shoppers in a supermarket. Dutka claims, however, that a naturally occurring random number, like the square root of 2, is better for those studies because there may be subtle, hard-to-detect biases in random numbers that are artificially generated...
...Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within forty-thousandths of a second after automatic sensors detect a collision, and then quickly deflate. In theory, at least, such a system could save at least 40% of the lives now lost in head-on crashes...
...street has seen it happening for quite a while, but the psychologist in the laboratory is just beginning to confirm the fact: differences between men and women are indeed diminishing-or at least getting harder to detect...