Space probes here to stay CAPE KENNEDY headline
Space exploration is presented as a lasting national enterprise. The article notes Merritt Island moonport construction near Cape Kennedy as a symbol of US commitment, contrasts Soviet lead, and discusses the evolving race to the moon, unmanned probes, and the economic and political stakes surrounding spaceflight.
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Space device to save babies
NASA and FDA report a tiny electronic instrument to monitor embryo heartbeats without harming the embryo. Originally built to study cosmic dust effects on spacecraft, the device detects extremely faint impacts and may have helped avert thalidomide related deformities by enabling early heart monitoring in developing embryos.
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Washington
UPS
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Vernon L. Ro Ballo
Ames Research Center
San Francisco
Earth
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Refugees Resettled Across the United States
In Miami many streets echo Spanish as about 55 000 refugees from Communist Cabe are resettled with aid from the Miami Cuban Refugee Center. They are being relocated to cities nationwide to start new lives after fleeing political upheaval.
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Miami
Wreets
Ames
Cabe
United States
MHD Power From Heat Moves Toward Commercial Use
A review of magnetohydrodynamics or MHD shows its potential to generate electricity from heat using ionized gas in strong magnetic fields. Backed by Avco and others, the technology promises high efficiency but faces material and magnet challenges, with pilots like Avco’s 20 megawatt test at Tullahoma aiming to prove feasibility and spur further development.
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General Electric
Arthur Kantrowitz
Everett
Philip Sporn
American Electric Power Service Corp
Sporn
Kantrowitz
C. Guy Suits
Dr. Suits
Stewart Way
Westinghouse
Michael Faraday
Faraday
Dustry
Air Force
Tullahoma
Tenn
Thymus Mystery: Adenoids Tonsils and Appendix Linked to Immunity
Chicago reports that immunologist Dr. Robert A. Good and colleagues at Minnesota and Massachusetts General Hospital presented evidence that the thymus gland works with surrounding tissues like adenoids tonsils and appendix to support the body's defense system. Findings in mice show a secretion from the thymus can trigger immune development even without cellular output, with potential implications for humans and cancer.
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Chicago
Robert A. Good
University of Minnesota
Good
MacFarlane Burnet
Australia
Massachusetts General
Minnesota
Raymond Peterson
Peterson
Burnet
Fisher, frogs, earth clock and planes in brief bits
Bits and pieces cover a fisher weighing under 12 pounds that can take on foxes and bobcats and dines on porcupine. A tropical frog species hatches as fully developed frogs with 40 eggs. Earth’s rotation varies minutely with historical clock shifts. Carthage’s ancient population topped a million before Christ. Supersonic planes cost about 20 million each and risk greater fuel penalties if off by a few thousand feet.
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National Geographic
America
Profiles in science Francis Galton
Francis Galton (1822 1911) was a doctor turned explorer meteorologist and anthropologist who coined the term eugenics. He defined it as the study of changes in inheritance that societies can effect and warned against state control over mating or sterilization. The piece notes heredity versus environment and references Galton’s regression concept as a pattern across inherited traits. The article promotes the Profiles in Science book and offers a dollar request for a copy.
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Charles Darwin
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James Lind
Leonardo da Vinci
William Harvey
Chronicle-Telegram
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Age is no curb to surgery now
In a New York report surgeons treated 68 patients aged 80 to 100 across 38 months. Mortality was 20 percent, not far above younger patients when surgery was appropriate. Emphasizing individualized risk, they note many elderly cases involve emergency procedures and infections like gangrene.
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