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...Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
...meets are moving outdoors now. This week Hayes will run his first 100 of the spring at the Florida A.A.U. Invitational at Miami. Hayes's Coach Dick Hill has his star practicing starts every afternoon, blasting out of the blocks time after time, fighting to pare a tiny fraction of a second off the time it takes him to get in motion. "It's a matter of reflexes," says Hill. "It takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react...
...some Masters have given students a fairly clear picture of the House admission system. To a few Houses, a huge fraction of the freshmen apply--more than half. To others, only a handful apply. Moreover, the Houses holding these leading and losing positions vary over several years...
...potential sites, five sea-level routes drew closest attention as the least expensive and easiest to dig. Each route has been studied for possible excavation by either conventional or nuclear methods. By using nuclear explosives (TIME, Jan. 31), the U.S. could build any one of them for only a fraction of the cost of a conventional canal...
...Beanpot Tournament, split with Clarkson, and clobbered Army on the way to its 14-5 record. Although Clarkson trails Harvard by a fraction of a per cent in Eastern competition, it would probably be ranked ahead of the Crimson because of its tougher schedule. But a Harvard victory tonight should vault the Crimson into the top four ahead of the Black Knights...