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...Meduna, who claims 68% success, explains how he thinks it works: in neurotics, the nerve cells are sensitive to abnormally small electric currents, so that they react oftener than they should, or else they react with abnormal severity to ordinary currents. He believes that carbon dioxide reacts in the cells to restore a more normal threshold of sensitivity...
...Milhorat and other researchers have found that in experiments with rabbits the disease may be brought on by withholding vitamin E from the diet, and shut off by giving the vitamin. But humans, for some unknown reason, do not react so simply: they may have plenty of vitamin E in their diets, while their muscles, unable to use it, wither away...
There are still some Americans who believe that any preparations for defense will provoke Russia. They may be right. Nobody can predict with certainty how the Kremlin will react. Men, however, rarely have a chance to act on certainties. They deal in probabilities. The probability is that the Russians will be more likely to attack if the U.S. and its Allies remain in or near their present indefensible condition...
Patience & Impatience. "Opinion in this country has sometimes tended to react in the manner of a stern father in the privacy of his home after his children have publicly embarrassed him. But is the relationship of the U.S. to Latin American nations in fact paternal? Or is it fraternal...
Part of the weight was "low-order" (chemical) explosive to detonate the bomb by driving together its subcritical masses of uranium. Another part was the "tamper"-a casing of metal whose inertia kept the exploding bomb from expanding too rapidly, i.e., before the nuclear explosive had time to react...