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...oratory, Long Island, the new alternating gradient synchroton, which scientists call AGS, was kicked up to full power for the first time, generating a proton beam that stayed steady at 30 Bev and hovered for short periods as high as 31 Bev, accelerating particles at rates only a fraction below the 186,300 miles-per-second speed of light. Eventually, Brookhaven expects to boost its power to about...
...contain. Mongolism has recently been shown to be associated with a supernumerary chromosome: victims have 47 instead of the normal 46. Some cases of intersex abnormalities have one or even two extra female (X) chromosomes. Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile. The time may come, suggested the Rockefeller Institute's Geneticist Edward L. Tatum, when medical men will be able to replace a defective gene with a specially tailored nucleic acid molecule, or to boost a patient's deficient supply...
Hong Kong, a capitalist balcony dangling on the outer wall of Red China, has become the world's largest and most varied supermarket. In this customs-free and refugee-packed enclave, Chinese merchants flourish, and practically anything-Japanese pearls, French perfumes, mandarin furniture-sells for a fraction of what it costs elsewhere. "If you live here," says a Western resident of the British crown colony of Hong Kong, "you're always broke because there are so many things you can't afford not to buy." The casual traveler can order eight best-quality English worsted suits...
...fraction of cloud, mostly made up of hard-to-ionize elements, stopped near the orbit of Venus (67 million miles from the sun). As it cooled off, some of its material condensed into dust. The dust grains grew bigger and bigger by attracting each other, and they finally coalesced to form three planets: Mercury, Venus and Earth. Another fraction of the cosmic cloud stopped farther away from the sun, forming Mars and the moon. Since these two zones of planet formation overlapped, the earth was able to capture the moon as its satellite. The big outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...
...followed him in Pied Piper numbers-and many of the faces were new. A lively turnout of 4,000 flowed into Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel one afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand. Said an awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most of the Democrats in the district." Added a leading Democrat: "If you were to limit this election to habitual Democrats, Humphrey would probably win. But all the fringe interest has been with Kennedy; the glamour, the hard campaigning by the family, have brought...