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...Radio receivers near the borders of the U.S.S.R. were the first U.S. instruments to report the news. Nuclear explosions in air generate sharp pulses of radio energy that can be picked up at great distances and clearly distinguished from everyday static. When two or more stations note the direction from which a pulse comes and the instant that it arrives, its point of origin can be calculated accurately...
...most deadly accidents that can befall the human circulatory system-as likely to kill quickly as a stroke or a heart attack-has no everyday English name. It is pulmonary embolism, in which the flow of used blood is blocked, nearly always by clots, in the pulmonary artery leading from the heart's lower right chamber to the lungs (see diagram). Medicine and surgery have been helpless to deal with severe cases of pulmonary embolism. Now a team of Houston doctors suggests that if victims can be operated upon promptly, a number may be saved with...
...must compare them with the late Joyce Gary's African books, which may not seem attuned to the latest news, but which even today make the news more intelligible. Gary fought in the Nigeria Regiment in World War I, later served as a magistrate dealing with the everyday crises of tribal life. Out of this experience came Mister Johnson (published in 1939), by all odds the best novel ever written about Africa, and An American Visitor (issued in 1933 but only now published in the U.S.), which is not up to Mister Johnson, but proves again that Africa reached...
...Detroit whose age, 55, almost matches Penn State's Kennedys. She quit her $6,600-a-year teaching job because "I feel that people in the highly developed countries have lost their sense of purpose. The Peace Corps is a chance to get away from the materialism of everyday living...
...Cobb played in 3,033 games, a record that no player has approached-or probably ever will. In the era of faraway fences and the "dead" baseball, when spitballs and beanballs were everyday hazards, Cobb set 13 batting records that have never been bettered. Among them: highest lifetime batting average (.367), most base hits (4,191), most total bases (5,863), most singles (3,052), most years batting over .300 (23). He batted over .400 three times, led the American League in hitting twelve times and nine years...