Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked on artificial hearts for ten years. He now had ready a device that might keep Karp alive for a week or two. It is about the same size as a natural heart and is made of Silastic (a silicone plastic), with Dacron cuffs for attachment to the "distributor cap," or blood-vessel connections, in the remnant of Karp's own heart. It is self-contained except for one essential ingredient: a power system to deliver a steady, pumping beat. This must come from an external console as big as a refrigerator standing at the bedside, to which...
...only a thousandth of an inch deep. There was about twice as much water vapor in the Northern Hemisphere (where it is now late summer) than in the southern half (where it is late winter). This suggests that the excess vapor in the north came from the melting ice cap...
...landing in 1973 of the unmanned U.S. Project Viking capsules, which will be equipped with life-detection instruments. Because the best prospects for life would almost certainly exist in the most humid areas, Astronomer Schorn suggests that the first landing be made at the edge of a receding polar cap, where the Martian soil should be as wet as it ever gets...
...center of attention in the towering-12-lb. headdress, constructed of gold wire with gilded latticework decorated with tinkling bells. "I feel like Radio Monte Carlo with all those antennas sticking out of my head," said she. As for his very serene highness, he wore an Oriental cap and a La Mancha mustache. "How do you find me?" he asked his Princess at one point-to which Grace replied: "Slanted, my lord...
...Pride. In G.M.'s latest recall, another engineering error involved air brake valve hoses that were placed close to the left front tires on certain highway tractors. The hoses at times rubbed against the tires and wore through, causing brake failure. Chrysler last year mailed new gasoline tank caps to 25,000 of its customers to replace a faulty one that posed a safety peril. The old cap had a rubber seal that, because it tended to swell up and cover the cap's air hole, could have caused the gas tank to collapse...