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...Killer. Philadelphia's Exterminator Corp. of America began selling a 7-oz. electric sprayer which permeates up to 15,000 cubic feet with a bug-killing chemical called lindane. Price...
...mass, however, the star is no midget. Astronomer Luyten figures that it is 40% heavier than the sun. A cubic inch of its densely packed matter would weigh something like 1,000-tons, and if a 150-lb. man could stand on its surface, his body would weigh 300,000 tons...
...whole star to bits. It would glory briefly as a supernova, shining more brightly than all the stars in the sky. But when the excitement was over, the only thing left would be a "neutron-star": a ball of peculiar matter made largely or entirely of neutrons. A cubic inch of this strange stuff would weigh 18 million tons, and a mass the size of the sun could be packed into a sphere less than 100 miles in diameter...
London's Imperial War Museum today houses many of the products of this period of the artist's life-spiky, devastated landscapes spotted with cubic gun pits, decorated with friezelike rows of artillery shells, and peopled by angular, steel-helmeted robots. The postwar years showed that Wyndham Lewis conceived of peace in much the same terms as war. Nature, to him, was a savage, unruly landscape, to be translated by the artist into what he called the "more tense and angular entity" of rational thought. He exclaimed...
...doctors at Memorial drained off the fluid as usual, then injected ten cubic centimeters (two-thirds of a tablespoon) of purplish liquid containing 20 trillion particles of gold. It took a while for the doubly precious metal to work, and Mrs. H. soon had to be tapped again. But by then the radioactive gold had bombarded the cancer cells and checked their multiplication. For the first time in a year, Mrs. H. could enjoy a full meal...