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...Robert W. Kistner last week reported that he had prescribed oral contraceptives containing the synthetic equivalent of the female hormone progesterone to 66 women with signs of precancerous change of the endometrium (lining of the womb). The endometrium is a fairly common cancer site, with at least 3,700 fatal cases expected in the U.S. this year, mainly among women who fail to ovulate and therefore do not secrete progesterone. But among Dr. Kistner's 66 patients, some treated as long as nine years ago, the precancerous condition was corrected, and cancer itself never developed...
...activity, and the answer seems simple: haul in the tether. But in frictionless space, the free-floating astronaut is orbiting the spaceship as it circles the earth, and any attempt to pull him in would make him rotate around it so fast that he would be ultimately subjected to fatal G forces. He would also be moving at an uncontrollable speed when he finally reached-and crashed into-the spacecraft...
Dr.Fisher said that one student caused a near-fatal car accident a few months after his "trip," when a pair of on-coming headlights seemed to become a hundred headlights. In the other case, a girl suddenly saw all the buildings. around her melt into the sidewalk...
High-speed aircraft and jet engines just cannot cope with birds. In the U.S., the annual total of aircraft-bird collisions now exceeds 1,600, some of them resulting in injuries and even fatal crashes. The Air Force alone estimates that it spends about $5,000,000 per year to repair aircraft surfaces battered or even pierced by the high-velocity impact of large fowl; it costs another $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 to repair or replace jet engines that have been damaged by ingested birds. But scientific help is on the way for aircraft-as well...
Sorry, French wonks and sports fans. The movie concerns a lady who takes one too many lovers, the fatal lover her stepson. That plot may be the plot of La Curee. But Vadim's treatment of the lady is highly un-Zolaesque. He doesn't condemn her as an unfortunate being who, because she slipped off the straight and narrow, can only slither around miserably. His treatment isn't an indictment. It's a celebration...