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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from here? Authors Rorty and Decter have a calm and sensible answer: "The antibodies of the American social and political organism-aided by the new communications technology which proved its value so mpressively during the televised ArmyMcCarthy hearings-are already power fully at work. They may be trusted to contain and eventually to eliminate the demagogue from Wisconsin...
...just this Anglo-Stoic reticence which makes Ned's letters read more like those of an ardent, puttering professor than an inspired leader of men. Hundreds of his early letters contain nothing more exciting than the measurements, in feet and inches, of innumerable loopholes, embrasures and arches, plus detailed information about the price of milk and bread and the state of his bicycle ("34 punctures to date ... in 1,400 miles"). If Ned's letters were the only clue to his identity, readers would think that all he did in World War I was collect stamps...
More dangerous than smoking are the many particles (mostly tars) breathed in by industrialized Western man, declared Dr. Wilhelm Hueper of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Factory soot, arsenical dust, engine-exhaust fumes all contain such dangerous particles. In one N.C.I. survey of ten U.S. cities, tars were filtered out of the air, and even in tiny doses (.05 gram) they were found to cause skin cancer in laboratory mice...
...bacteria as an aid to exploration, e.g., certain important layers of rock can be identified by the fossil microorganisms imbedded in the strata. Some of these are remains of bacteria that lived freakishly on iron or sulphur compounds; others, still living, get along on petroleum itself. Most common soils contain bacteria that can "eat" hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears...
...good cause to be wary of the use of anesthesia. Eighteen to 20 patients die in the U.S. each year from anesthesia in dentists' offices. Most common cause of death is brain damage from hypoxia (shortage of oxygen) caused by improper mixture of anesthetic gas, which should never contain less than 20% oxygen. The patient may survive a dose of gas that contains less than this minimum, but if it is prolonged or repeated, he may undergo personality changes or survive only as a moronic "vegetable." One dentist's proposed antidote: no dental anesthesia outside hospitals...