Word: detective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sadeh feels sure that by January he should be able to detect an apparent speedup in the pulsar clock when compared with its rate this month-a clear indication that earth time has slowed by the same amount. If Einstein was right, that observed slowdown will total about 1/ 100th of a second per year. "If our measurements are accurate and we don't get this result," says Hoffmann, "then we scientists-and the Einstein theory-are in trouble...
Such arguments are frequently irrelevant to the dissenter. He answers that law does not always provide justice; that there are good and bad laws, and that the governed sometimes detect the difference before their governors. Before his unhappy resignation as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner observed: "Once the grip of tradition or apathy or oppression has been broken and people can hope for a better life, their aspirations soar. But the institutions that must satisfy these aspirations change at the same old glacial speed...
...mechanical process, right? But as time wore on, and I met other people who had stopped meditating, or weren't noticing any change, I began learning certain truths about Transcendental Meditation as a practice and as a movement. Now, after three and a half months, I still cannot detect any effects of meditation...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Rugby League Cup Final play-off at Wembley Stadium, London. The players don't wear padding, but they do handle the ball, and sports fans will detect some similarity to U.S. football...
...rope. The injections disoriented the rats and impaired their climbing ability. A similar effect on a rat's shinnying skills is also caused by derivates of 3,4, dimethoxyphenethylamine (DMPEA), more simply known as "the pink spot" because of its color in paper chromatography tests designed to detect it. DMPEA has been found in the urine of several thousand severely ill schizophrenics. It was isolated six years ago by Psychiatrist Arnold Friedhoff and Biochemist Elnora Van Winkle of the New York University School of Medicine, and studied further in additional tests in England and Rumania...