Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September, twelve female nurses embarked upon a five-week routine of pedaling, dieting, spinning and bed rest at NASA'S Ames Research Center in California. They patiently endured such triumphs of technology as electronic heart monitors tucked into their bras and pill-sized sensors that transmitted temperature data from the vagina by way of a "bio-belt" worn around the waist. The experiment was designed to find out whether weightlessness and re-entry forces like those experienced by astronauts affect females more severely than males. To the delight of the test subjects-and of NASA critics who have charged...
...first two weeks of the program, the nurses were examined to determine their normal metabolic characteristics. Then eight of them were put to bed for two weeks while four, selected as controls, remained ambulatory. Those on bed rest had to remain horizontal at all times, except during meals when they could rest on one elbow. Diet was carefully controlled and such foods as vanilla, bananas, pineapple, coffee and tea-all of which contain chemicals that might interfere with interpretations of physiological reactions-were forbidden. Boredom was relieved by TV, stereo, books and, according to a NASA press release...
...tested by placing a bag tightly around the lower body and pumping the air out. This created a partial vacuum, which tends to concentrate the blood in the lower part of the body and to create the effects of gravity on astronauts who have just returned to earth. The bed rest was also followed by placing the women in a centrifuge and whirling them at three Gs for as long as they could endure it; that simulated reentry. They also rode bicycle trainers as long as possible to determine their oxygen intake. The results of the tests have shown NASA...
...grip of two incontrollable forces. One: don't give yourself away. Two: attack him. If it were possible to get a hernia while sitting down, I would have gotten one. After about five minutes of this, I got up, took a cold shower, and went back to bed with pajamas. I might as well save you the trouble: it didn't help...
...signs of frailty in or out of the courtroom. Up by 7, he plays nine holes of golf before going to work. (His home is on the 16th fairway of his club.) He is also fond of good food and good wines. Nonetheless, most evenings he is in bed by 7 so that he can settle down and read for a few hours-"anything or everything from briefs to biographies...