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...Pakistan last week went wild over Fatima Jinnah. Nearly 250,000 people turned out to see her in Dacca, and a million lined the 293-mile route from there to Chittagong. Her train, called the Freedom Special, was 22 hours late because men at each station pulled the emergency cord, and begged her to speak. The crowds hailed her as "Mother of the Nation," and when she asked, "Are you with me?", hands waved wildly...
...Waukegan as a little boy. "This is mankind's chance to be immortal," he says. "We're going to travel into space and live forever. Our children's children shall live a million miles away. It took us one billion years to form a spinal cord, and now we're going to leave this shore and go off to another planet. It's like being there the day the first fish crawled out on land...
...quickly spread to all areas of the city, probably borne by the female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, a night biter that acquires the virus from birds (and possibly small animals and reptiles), which are thought by most experts to be the natural reservoirs of the disease. SLE attacks the spinal cord and the brain, destroying nerve cells and frequently damaging the small blood vessels that supply the brain...
...which infection spread. Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick. There was no way to predict which few men would develop a life-threatening infection that would race through the bloodstream and attack their meninges-the covering of the brain and spinal cord...
...dresses, and the Canadians are making fiber glass igloos for north woods sportsmen. Automobile bodies, when runs are limited to 50,000 cars of a specialized model, can be made more economically using fiber glass instead of steel. Fiber glass makers hope eventually to replace steel or nylon cord in tires, and thereby take over a $400 million-a-year business. There are signs that fiber glass may even become a wonder worker: a desalinization technique is being tested in which sea water is run through an inexpensive membranous fiber glass pipe, which allows the fresh water to pass through...