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The new findings make it less likely than ever that future space probes will find any kind of life on Venus. A surface compression of 75 atmospheres is as crushing as the pressure of water 2,550 ft. below the ocean's surface. A temperature of 900° F...
"Negotiations are like a compression chamber," Thomson says. "Once you get in it, the pressure comes from all sides to reduce your grandiose objectives. And it also becomes very hard to break off talks once you have started them. I think all of us should press very hard for talks...
Since 1955, more than 5,000 South African births have been aided at six de compression clinics using Heyns's method. Another clinic is operating in Mexico City, and some 36 national health hospitals in Great Britain have used the device for problem pregnancies and research.
Dope is hardly necessary. Today's competitor has no end of perfectly legal aids. His equipment has improved, with spectacular effects. The old hickory or ash vaulting poles have given way to bamboo, steel, aluminum and fiber glass, and with each change vaulters have soared ever higher, until the...
By the time he left St. Marks for Harvard in 1935, Lowell had written in an essay on the Iliad: "Its magnitude and depth make it almost as hard to understand as life." So soon, Lowell had put art and life on a parity. At Harvard, he lolled in his...