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Convinced that a "thread" somewhere in the human body linked vomiting with many types of illness, Dr. Borison and Columbia University's Dr. S. C. Wang determined, in 1953, the existence of a vomiting control center and a trigger zone in the brain stem. By removing the trigger zone from the brains of dogs and cats, Dr. Borison and his research staff have been able to prevent vomiting that ordinarily follows the injection of certain chemicals into the blood stream...
...chemicals of discontent which are present throughout the whole Arab world exploded in a foreboding chain reaction last week in Jordan. The trigger was Britain's attempt to bring Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact too fast; the effect was a setback for the West...
...real hit. Photographer Joern Gerdts' skill in shooting game far surpasses that of any hunter -whether he be the weekend small-townsman in Levis or the big-city boy in his "pure cashmere long underwear from Abercrombie & Fitch." Gerdts' photos should make some readers still the itching trigger finger instead of arousing the desire to kill...
...pilot who has jettisoned his canopy and then ridden down to death. Perhaps it was a shock wave; no one is sure. But it frightened Pilot Smith as he had never been frightened. Terrified, he crouched forward (the wrong position for ejection). He does not even remember pressing the trigger that shot him out of the aircraft. The last thing he recalls is a glimpse of the machmeter, which read Mach 1.05. This is 777 m.p.h. at his altitude...
...device does not exist. Inspection by air would only assure the U.S. that Russia is not massing for a surprise attack. Yet such a system would set the military machines of both powers on edge. The slightest mistake of the enemy's intentions made by an inspecting plane could trigger off mutual destruction...