Word: cm
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...measurements of each child. If he or she is too small, it can be a sign of chronic malnourishment. Danish Nutritionist Birthe Pedersen, who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross, is measuring an eight-year-old boy. The upper part of his sticklike arm is 9.8 cm around; a normal child's arm is about 15 cm. After the boy walks away, Pedersen looks grim. "He will not live very long," she says...
...ceramic superconductors carry electricity with perfect efficiency at far higher temperatures than conventional superconductors (above -320 degrees F, vs. -418 degrees F or below), making them easier to refrigerate and cheaper to use. But to be useful, they must carry at least 100,000 amps of current per square cm of cross section and 1 million amps or more in some applications. So far, the new superconductors have carried only about 1,000 amps...
...Journal of Medicine, compared the results of mastectomy with a far less radical operation called lumpectomy, in which only the breast tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue are removed. The research involved 1,843 patients, each of whom had a tumor that measured no more than 4 cm (or about 1 1/2 in.) in diameter. The participants agreed to be assigned randomly to three different treatment groups. About one- third underwent a mastectomy, one-third had a lumpectomy, and another third received radiation treatment in addition to a lumpectomy. The women in all three groups had their underarm...
...divestiture of stock has little moral value to and of itself because as Americans we will never successfully cleanse ourselves of the corporations which do business in South Africa. Of the top 50 companies in the United States, more than half do some business in South Africa. Companies like CM, Ford, IBM, ITT and Exxon, so intricately connected to our daily lives, have operations in that nation. We would need to boycott everything from automobiles to telephones to maintain that we are morally free of apartheid. Of course, this would be a ridiculous undertaking, but without this isolationism, advocates...
With its new found lull-cm-to-sleep and ambushem-in-the-waning-seconds tactics. Yale has rebounded from last year's 1-9 disaster to jump into undisputed third place in the Ancient Eight...