Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revolutionary Radar. Nike-X's brain is a revolutionary, Army-developed multifunction array radar (MAR), which uses lightning-fast electronic switching instead of the conventional radar an tenna to direct its beams, thus can "see" 360° at a glance. The Army now has a prototype MAR installation at White Sands, N. Mex., is building another on Kwajalein Island in the Pacific. MAR can 1) detect incoming missiles hundreds of miles away; 2) determine which of the missiles have warheads and which are decoys; and 3) track the missiles as they streak toward their U.S. targets...
...Medicine, considered a standard all over the world (eleven editions since 1927), himself a leader in the battle against arthritis, who created one of the first U.S. arthritis clinics in 1922, developed the agglutination test, and was among the first to treat the disease with gold salts; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...
...that he is broke. But the court pried out of him the fact that he had $500,000 in a numbered Swiss bank account; this cache has been turned over to his bankruptcy trustees. How much more Tino may have stashed away is a secret locked in the nimble brain of the fat man who fooled everybody. If he values his freedom highly, he may, under the terms of his sentence, still tell quite a story...
...found themselves reaching back to studies of ducks and seals-experiments that were in some cases nearly a century old. When those aquatic creatures swim below the surface, a "dive" reflex slows their heartbeats and contracts their peripheral arteries, thus concentrating the available oxygenated blood in the heart and brain. Most of the body's tissues then switch from an oxygen-burning system to one in which nutrients are "burned" without oxygen...
...festival of the bear." All year long Tiwanda braves would hunt bear and finally, on this particular day, the largest bear of the season would be killed, prepared and eaten by every members of the community. Each brave, squaw and papoose had his share of bear meat, of bear brain, of bear eye, of bear bone, and, for dessert, of bear's fur, cooked in a special glasse...