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President Truman got ready to offer the world's scientists free access to an atomic byproduct-the radioisotopes produced in Oak Ridge's atomic piles, generally considered the most important aid to medical research since the invention of the microscope...
Viruses, says Burnet, are an unhappy byproduct of civilization; they cannot survive in small or widely scattered populations. Because viruses multiply fast and change in unexpected ways, "new virus diseases of man may well arise in the future." But the chances against any new virus getting a strong foothold are a million...
...almost invisible speck of radioactive carbon-a millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...
...Sending tanks to Latin America is not a very serious contribution to hemispheric defense. The tanks only become obsolete. However, build highways, dams, power plants and you produce, as a byproduct, mechanics. In an international emergency a modern mechanized army can be organized from those mechanics far more efficiently than from drilled soldiers who have not yet developed the mentality of a mechanical age. And highways and dams bolster a democracy instead of undermining...
Last week General Electric completed a dicker to take over, from Du Pont, the management of the $347,000,000 Government-owned plant at Hanford, Wash. Although the three great piles in the Hanford desert were built to produce plutonium for bombs, their byproduct is unharnessed energy in enormous quantities. G.E. will run the piles at cost plus $1. Its profit will be in priceless experience...