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Should cancer victims be told the truth? Many doctors have snap answers to this question, but Otis Bowen, a general practitioner in the little Indiana town of Bremen (pop. 2,664), asked his patients what their answer would be if they ever got cancer. Last week Dr. Bowen was busy mailing out his findings to fellow physicians who wanted to know the patient's point of view. Among 477 patients (all white, but well divided as to age, sex, educational background and economic position). Dr. Bowen found...
...Australia, rainmaking has enjoyed a better-regulated infancy. According to Welsh-born Dr. George Edward Bowen, a leader in the development of both radar and radio astronomy, Australia's carefully controlled program of "cloud physics" experiments has yielded clear and encouraging results...
...Bowen does not advise silver-iodide seeding from ground generators. He has tried it with little success except on clouds that would probably have yielded rain anyway. On the other hand, he got good results by spraying water into warm clouds containing vertical currents. Such clouds produce much of Australia's rain...
Plenty of seedable clouds, says Dr. Bowen, drift over Australia without springing a leak. An area of some 1,000,000 sq. mi. to the west of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia is chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...
...head the moribund College of Commerce, Stoddard imported a Keynesian economist named Howard Bowen who was soon accused of firing a professor for being too "conservative." The Chicago Tribune picked up the cry, and Stoddard was forced to let Bowen...