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...lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns that the relative humidity is too low. shoots in a fine spray of water. Durr staggers the eggs, in each incubator, because from the 16th day until the 21st, when the chick breaks through the shell, a hatching chicken gives off heat, thereby thriftily helps incubate the eggs put in later. This way Durr has to turn on the electricity only about...
...livers for humans and sold for thousands of dollars an ounce. Now Pfizer sells the B-12-rich residue cheaply to feed companies, which put it into animal rations. Merck & Co. and others have synthesized gibberellic acid, which has a powerful growth-stimulating effect on plants. Minute traces in spray will make spinach grow a second crop, and double the size of seedless grapes...
...gauze mask worn by generations of doctors and nurses slows down the spray of germs from their breathing, but eventually lets a dangerous proportion get through. Last week two Minneapolis surgeons described a radically new mask that allows only a small fraction of the germ spread and should markedly reduce the number of infections in surgical wounds...
Brown Fruit. The artificial lake, formed by the mighty Zambesi River, stretches back 110 miles toward the pluming spray of the 350-ft. Victoria Falls. It is held in check by the towering new Kariba dam, hailed as the greatest piece of masonry in Africa since the days of the Pharaohs. The simple Batonga tribesmen who lived in the valley for centuries had-with difficulty-been evacuated to higher ground (TIME. Dec. 15). Now it was the turn of thousands of animals, in one of the world's richest game sanctuaries, and there were only eleven...
...smiling through our tears, or vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon...