Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dose of an encephalitis virus, 73% of the animals survived, as against only 3% of unprotected mice. The score was still better when the RNA preparation was put into the animals' noses and they were exposed to a pneumonia virus: 90% survived, whereas every one of the unprotected comparison group of mice died...
...annual cost of educating a Vietnamese student in the present universities at Can Tho, Hue and Saigon is quite low in comparison to institutions within knowledge of the survey team...
Taut Crossbow. The Calder is not an unmitigated success, partly because it was necessary to blunt its knifelike edges with heavy reinforcements to enable it to withstand the brisk winds that blow off the St. Lawrence. It suffers, like most Expo sculpture, from comparison with the bizarre silhouettes of the pavilions. Nonetheless, most fairgoers like Calder's Man. Murmured one miniskirted coed, gazing up at it last week: "I like the strength and the way it springs up. It has power, like a human being. Flowers spring up, but not in the same...
...week, the Pope had a warm and fraternal encounter with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople-but there was none of the drama of their first meeting three years ago on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Though cordially received by predominantly Moslem Turkey, the Pope drew crowds modest by comparison with the millions who cheered him in Bombay and New York...
...Electric's Dr. P. Buford Price devised a method of enlarging the tracks by etching them with acid. As a result, they can now be seen under an ordinary light microscope. By counting the tracks, the age of material containing uranium can be measured. All it takes is comparison of the tracks in a sample with the amount of its uranium content, plus a complex equation...