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Ordinary electronic equipment is prostrated by the temperature of boiling water (212° F.). As the temperature rises, rubber and plastic insulation melts, chars or burns. Glass softens and loses its insulating power. Metals oxidize or melt. Even without such drastic damage, heat causes changes of properties that keep the apparatus from doing...
Adair was the first human subject so treated for barbiturate poisoning. Punching a hole through the muscle wall of his abdomen 2 in. below the navel, doctors inserted a plastic tube in his peritoneal cavity and hooked this up with a quart flask containing mineral salts in the same concentration as they occur in the blood, plus antibiotics to check infection. The solution drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with...
...only overt illness or accident, but the intangible factor of emotional stress suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch...
...anger or anxiety have a greater effect on stomach contractions? Medical researchers trying to answer these questions have been hampered by difficulty in observing what goes on inside the gut. Last week a team of U.C.L.A. psychologists studying automatic nervous reactions announced a compact solution to the problem: a plastic-coated magnet no bigger than a small medicine capsule...
...contemporary composers are necessarily eating better than they were before the boom. Record royalties seldom come to more than 3? a composition. In the modern-music field, 10,000 copies mean a rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least...