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...throughout the entire dorm; people are dancing; the furniture is flying; and Harvard seems a million miles away. Someone downstairs with a Chem 20 hourly the next day asks politely for a little more quiet. A fellow wearing only boxer shorts and a lampshade advises him to stick a carbon chain model in his ear. The volume knob hits "10." The police arrive...
...different sort of treatment is being tried by Los Angeles Gynecologist Robert Scott. He has used a carbon dioxide laser to vaporize herpes lesions in 100 patients and reports a 70% success rate in preventing or delaying recurrences...
...with our Nel-Spot pistols, blasting away from about 30 yds. at a large sheet of plywood. The Nel-Spots are as big and heavy as .45 automatics, and just as deadly looking, although actually they are not a great deal more dangerous than water pistols. They use a carbon-dioxide propellant cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot...
...well remember when I received my Social Security card. It still bears the name of my employer at the time. And it is one of the few things I have never lost." Says Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey: "It was obtained so long ago I would have to resort to carbon dating to determine when. But I have never forgotten the number." Says Boston Reporter Lisa Towle: "I recall the day my sixth-grade teacher sat the home-room class down and told us it was time to apply for Social Security cards. I felt so proud, though still not understanding...
Intensive study of the creatures has provided some tantalizing hints about the bizarre life processes in this lightless world. On the earth's surface, all life, with minor exceptions, stems from the sun. Green plants, synthesizing sugars and other carbohydrates out of water and carbon dioxide in a sunlight-powered process called photosynthesis, provide sustenance for virtually all other living things. But in the world of the deep sea vents, there is no sun. How then do its inhabitants survive...