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...orthopedist (bone and joint specialist) may be the first physician to detect some cases of lung cancer, Dr. Paul E. Dee of Rockford, Ill. told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Explanation: cancer in the apex of the lung is often first signaled by pain in the shoulder, arm or neck...
...miles per second. Twelve hours later, the apparatus would be moving in the direction opposite to the earth's orbital motion, and light's speed should have been increased by the same amount. The appa ratus was crude by modern standards, but theoretically sensitive enough to detect this degree of change. No such effect was found. Light seemed to move at the same speed in all directions, regardless of the ether wind. So scientists had to abandon the concept of the luminiferous ether. Light had nothing to travel in, and therefore could not be simple waves. Worse...
...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...
...tried for the murder of a native, and barely escaped a long prison term. Back in Sydney to cool off (and to take treatment for a virulent dose of gonorrhea), Errol got a job as a bottle smeller for a soft-drink company, i.e., he sniffed empty bottles to detect kerosene, etc., to discover which bottles needed special washing. Later he was the gigolo of a wealthy middle-aged woman who "woke my understanding of the possible wonder and diversity of the female form." One night, tired of his work, Errol skipped out with all her jewels...
...system for monitoring nuclear bomb tests based on a network of 180 control stations. The U.S. has been regretting the offer ever since. Only two months later, U.S. scientists exploded a small nuclear device beneath a mesa in Nevada, which proved that such explosions were far harder to detect than the U.S. had supposed. Difficulty is that the Russians have embraced the 180-station system as if they had thought of it themselves. For months they refused even to listen to the U.S.'s new evidence. And then, when they finally consented, they listened in stony disapproval. Last week...