Word: labs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet medicine's problems are hardly confined to personnel. Bureaucracy has overstandardized treatment and inhibited research. Lab equipment, drugs and anesthetics are in short supply; heart-lung machines are scarce. Psychiatric care is well below American and European standards. Health Minister Petrovsky admits that the biggest problem facing the country's medical system is "improvement of the material and technological base." Until the problem is solved, Soviet medicine, though free and highly accessible, will remain abreast of the West in knowledge, but years behind in the ability...
Vertical lines and a virtual absence of windows give the crisply detailed tower a powerful, brooding air. But the building clearly states its purpose. Devoted to research labs, it is the place where agronomists conduct prolonged experiments in biology and biochemistry, which require precise climate control as well as immunity from such outside contaminants as sunlight. At first the scientists objected to the idea of working in windowless labs, Franzen recalls, "but when we checked into the labs in which they were working, we found that most of them had covered up the windows with cardboard." From the scientists...
...Geological Survey's lab at Menlo Park, a fired-up corps of young scientists is "bugging" central California's creaking faults with ultrasensitive new instruments. The lab has already set up more than 100 seismic stations, one-eighth of the world's total, to detect ever smaller earth tremors...
Many engineers argue that because quakes are here to stay, the best approach is not predicting them but erecting sound buildings, bridges and dams on relatively safe sites. "It's not earthquakes that kill people," says Don Tocher of the new ESSA lab, "it's the buildings that people build that kill people." But seismologists point out that high costs have discouraged the construction of better buildings...
Died. Dr. Stuart Brinkley Jr., 54, physicist and pioneering researcher into the characteristics of explosives; of a heart attack; in South Bristol, Maine. Though he lost both hands in a lab explosion while a student at Yale, Brinkley did not let the tragedy hamper his career: he learned to use artificial hands, experimented without letup. His treatise on blast wave theory, written with Cornell Professor John Kirkwood, is a classic in its field...