Word: technician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before the magistrates in a rural part of England, accused of blinding with a poker the 26 horses he cared for. The story haunted Shaffer. He never tried to find out the actual details because "I'm not a journalist or a photographer." He is, however, a consummate technician. He delved into the history of horses as sexual and religious symbols and read extensively in animal and child psychology. Then he worked out the boy's motivations to his own satisfaction. In the play they are revealed in long, troubled dialogues between the boy (Peter Firth), who actually...
...hundreds of mastectomies. After the anesthesiologist gave the go-ahead at 8:05 a.m., Fouty cut into the breast and within about ten minutes had removed the lump. It proved to be 2 cm. in circumference-no bigger than the tip of a man's little finger. A technician rushed the lump to the pathology department, where it was fast-frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast...
...Charles D. Cox, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, this seemed paradoxical because spirochetes infecting humans or animals flourish in oxygen-rich blood and cells. With Technician Miriam K. Barber he began experimenting with a virulent strain of syphilis bacteria grown in rabbits. Using a recently developed, extremely sensitive technique for measuring oxygen concentrations, the two investigators found that the spirochetes, far from being anaerobic, consume oxygen in their metabolism. In the journal Infection and Immunity they suggest the "strong possibility" that oxygen is necessary for the reproduction and growth of the organisms. As to why they...
...while St. Clair had told the court that the reel of tape was "removed full" at 4:20 p.m. After checking, St. Clair reported to Sirica that five minutes and twelve seconds of the 45-minute conversation had not been recorded because a Secret Service technician was changing tape reels...
TIME has learned, however, that the technician, James Baker, now stationed in Texas, would not have needed more than a minute to change reels of tape. Moreover, it was learned that the missing portion was apparently clipped from the end of one tape and the beginning of another...