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Saeed was not as displeased by Andrea's progress. Shock treatments were usually temporary fixes for severely ill patients, he told Rusty. He still did not want to go back to prescribing Haldol. "It's a bad medicine," he said. He thought about putting her on lithium, typically used to treat bipolar patients with mood swings. Andrea's mood had been flat but steady until the past week, Rusty told him. Asked if she were suicidal, Andrea murmured "No" to Saeed. He did not ask if she thought of hurting others. Again Saeed adjusted her dose of antidepressants...
Meanwhile, the folks at Energizer are miffed that Panasonic ads, claiming that Oxyride "beats the bunny" in comparison tests with leading alkaline batteries in digital cameras, left out Oxyride's performance against Energizer's e2 lithium batteries. "Their comparison is against one of the batteries in our portfolio that is recommended for everyday devices like flashlights, toys, smoke detectors," says Jeff Ziminski, vice president of North American marketing at Energizer. Energizer plans to let consumers know (loudly) that in tests specifically for digital cameras, e2 lithium batteries blow the socks off competitors...
...good as it is for digital cameras, Oxyride can't hold a candle to Energizer's disposable e2 lithium battery, which delivered 3,107 digital shots to Oxyride's 990 according to the results of a comparative test in the June issue of POPULAR SCIENCE. But Panasonic is banking that most people will balk at paying $10 for a four-pack of lithium batteries when they can get a four-pack of Oxyrides...
...Thirring, a Viennese scholar without access to secret information, read certain published reports that could be found in any physics library. Going about the scientist's business of mating known facts to breed new facts, Dr. Thirring made and published calculations leading to the conclusion that out of lithium hydride could be constructed a bomb many times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of his austere equations, Dr. Thirring's scientific article flamed up into a prayer: "God protect the country over which a six-ton bomb of lithium hydride will ever explode...
Last week the U.S. learned some details of lithium hydride (or equivalent) explosions that had been set off-by the Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear...