Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for the difference are partly chemical, partly psychological. Manufactured gas is full of carbon monoxide which has an even greater affinity for the body's hemoglobin than oxygen has. Natural gas is composed largely of methane and ethane, which do not replace oxygen in the blood. The only way they can kill is by diluting the oxygen until the victim suffocates. But this takes a long, long time, said Dr. Spain, and in the meanwhile, most would-be suicides change their minds or are discovered...
...chief assistant librarian of Congress, warned U.S. scientists to restrain themselves. Today, said he, there are nearly 2,000,000 scientific articles that U.S. librarians have not yet had time to catalogue-and the backlog is increasing at the rate of 215,000 a year. ¶Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. announced a model scholarship program to send high-school students to college. If all goes according to plan, the program will eventually take care of 400 students, pay their full four-year tuition, add an allowance for books and board, give an annual $600 grant to the colleges that...
...rapture, which comes on at about 200 ft., is apparently caused by the oversaturation of the nervous system with nitrogen or carbon dioxide under the increased pressure. "The first stage," writes Cousteau, "is a mild anesthesia, after Which the diver becomes a god. If a passing fish seems to require air, the crazed diver may tear out his air pipe or mouth grip [and offer it to the fish] as a sublime gift...
...longtime partners in the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, the brothers Dulles are used to working together. "They are closer than any two brothers I have ever known," says an old friend. Both are foreign-affairs specialists, both love travel and sailing. But Allen is no carbon copy of his older (by five years) brother. Says a longtime friend and associate of the Dulleses: "That mustache Allen wears is sort of symbolic of the difference in their personalities. Allen is gayer, more outgoing, less reserved, more of a raconteur...
...school does not need a strong man to make carbon copies. The teacher must put himself in his students' place, and get their interpretations, thereby enriching himself. We must encourage men to find their own approach, integrating these different methods in a common spirit...