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Food, the most important single element in morale, is a crucial factor in World War II, and the struggle for it was one of the major battles last week. The plantings and the harvests of 1941 and 1942, if their power were understood and they were properly geared into the major strategy of the war, might be the determining factor. Certainly the nation which won the Battle of Food would sit at the head of the peace-conference table...
...detection of an element by its radioactivity is up to one million times as sensitive as by chemical analysis. The radioactivity can be detected by killing an animal after it has eaten radioelements, then assaying the radioactivity of its various tissues. It can also be detected by placing a Geiger counter, a device which measures radioactivity, over a part of the body where the tracer elements are suspected so that the metabolic ebb & flow of the tagged substance can thus be observed while the subject is alive. Or the detection can be accomplished by taking paper-thin slices of plant...
...necessarily by the German method of destroying them) is a principle which most U.S. psychiatrists accept. But few doctors would swallow the Nazi definition of "unfit" or "psychopath." In a 1938 issue of the official Militärarzt (Army Doctor), German physicians were warned against "the most dangerous . . . element, the left psychopathic wing . . . those who . . . promote incitement and rebellion . . . those who, not lacking in intelligence . . . gather about themselves the discontented"-a description which in Germany applies rather better to democrats than to radicals...
Instead of dosing children with oil (it seems to lose much of its power in the digestive tract), Dr. Gerstenberger injects it into their buttocks. He does not use fish oil, but its essential element-synthetic vitamin D3, dissolved in a cubic centimeter of cottonseed oil. The vitamin is gradually absorbed into the child's blood stream...
Some astronomers once thought these indicated a new element, "coronium." Others suspected were light elements like oxygen in a high state of atomic excitation...