Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...likely to happen. NASA has already scrubbed one of the seven remaining moon missions, and it may well cancel three more. Some of the Apollo's big Saturn 5 boosters will be used to establish small earth-orbiting space stations such as the three-man Sky lab scheduled for launching in 1972. But even these schemes-not to mention more ambitious space stations-could be set back by a balky Congress. Certainly, a decision to send Americans to Mars will not be made for years to come. The only phase of the space program that has escaped the budget...
...majorities knew that a fanned fire burns faster because of the increase in oxygen. A surprise for parents: 89% identified the balanced meal (steak, bread, carrots, milk) in a list of diverting alternatives. The 13-year-olds tended to be stronger at graph and table reading than at using lab equipment. Nearly three-quarters agreed that the statement "My dog is better than your dog" is not a matter amenable to scientific inquiry...
...model, Khorana picked a relatively simple gene from the common yeast cell; its nucleotide sequence is only 77 steps long. But those 77 steps made the building process immensely complex. Adding one lab-made nucleotide at a time in complex chemical processes, Khorana's team patiently assembled small, single-stranded segments of the 77-step chain. After each step forward, the scientists had to backtrack: every new combination had to be unraveled in order to check that the nucleotides were still in the right sequence and had not been damaged by chemical side effects. When enough strands had been...
...instructors in the National Guard are officers. The officers are mostly working-class men, who have little direct contact with street demonstrators. In fact, the lab technicians, shipyard workers and garbage men, who make up the officer corps of the Guard units are part of the middle American class that finds demonstrators as destructive of American society as Communists. They resent students, who they feel make up the mass of street protestors. In their instructions about riots they clearly display their dislike, and thus encourage a dangerous sentiment among...
...researchers little or no private life. Masters is married and the father of two children, but he adamantly sequesters his family from the inquisitive, presumably because it must not be easy to be the wife or child of a sex researcher. "His whole life is here at the lab," says Virginia Johnson. So is hers, although she does, like Masters, take Sunday afternoons...