Word: carbonations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began performing Vineberg implants on patients suffering from angina pectoris, the crippling pain that signals insufficient blood supply to heart muscles. But other surgeons, still skeptical, concentrated on alternative approaches. Dr. Philip Sawyer of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn developed a method of using pressurized carbon dioxide gas to separate the inner and outer walls of an artery so that the fat adhering to the arterial lining could be more easily removed. Others experimented with widening clogged arteries by inserting gussets made from pieces of the patient's saphenous vein...
...assimilation to remove large volumes of waste material. The trenches may fill faster than the garbage can be ingested. New islands and reefs of curiously familiar material could be the result. Volcanoes could become smokestacks belching atmospheric pollutants on a scale never before imagined. On the brighter side, organic carbon under such conditions may be converted into huge quantities of diamond...
Human cloning, the asexual reproduction of genetic carbon copies, raises similar questions. Who shall be cloned, and why? Great scientists? Composers? Statesmen? When Geneticist Hermann J. Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race...
...Germany's Audi NSU $12 million in the early '60s for rights to the engine, spent seven years and $20 million improving its performance. The most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more antipollution devices to the engine. As a result, says Jiro Morikawa. president...
Going Out. For the foreseeable future, East Europeans are likely to take either East Germany or Hungary as their economic model. In the long run, however, they cannot help being attracted by Yugoslavia. Originally, the country was a carbon copy of the Soviet system. Before the 1948 split with Stalin, Yugoslavia's central plan spelled out every conceivable detail from production quotas to retail prices; in print, the plan weighed 3,000 lbs. By 1950, President Josip Broz Tito recognized the inefficiency of total central control. Tito allowed workers to participate in running the factories. Elected workers' councils...