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...issue involved at the origin of this controversy was not whether Russia should have been brought into the Pacific war-this should have clearly been done at the beginning-but whether we should have made vital territorial concessions at the expense of Chinese sovereignty to induce Russia to come in at the end. On Dec. 13, 1941, I urged that Russia attack immediately from the north. This would have saved countless lives, billions of dollars, and spared the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea and many Pacific islands...
Scientists cannot disprove this theory, but they consider it unlikely. It is probable that the whole universe had some common origin, and should, therefore, be made of the same kind of matter. The question might be settled, thinks Dr. Segre, one of the antiproton creators, if astronomers' instruments were sensitive enough to observe the magnetic properties of stars in distant galaxies...
...poor peasants of Sardinia and southern Italy, the paddyfield workers of China and Japan, or Bantu tribesmen. It is commoner among men than among pre-menopausal women; after the menopause, women gradually become as susceptible as men, though it takes them until age 80 to catch up. Racial origin, body build, smoking habits and the amount of physical activity also have been implicated. And, of course, the Gog and Magog of modern medicine: stress and strain...
Many heart men are returning to the field of their earliest successes-surgery. To check hypertension in some cases of nervous origin there is a formidable two-stage operation, sympathectomy: whole series of nerve bundles beside the spine are cut. Increasingly daring surgery is also coming to the aid of atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit...
...sodium vapor that the Air Force put into the atmosphere will drift with the winds. If it increases the normal air glow, it can be followed, perhaps for considerable distances. A cloud of sodium of known origin picked up by astronomers' instruments in the Eastern states will be a fine way to measure wind velocity at levels that no weather balloon can reach...