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...Bark & New. What is generally agreed is that the most primitive emotions and reactions, such as hunger and sex drives, are experienced in the hypothalamus (see diagram). In general, the higher the functions, the higher their seats in the brain-rising through the thalami and their branches, and the basal ganglia, to the paleocortex ("old bark"), which man shares with the higher animals...
...brakes and was hit from behind. My car started to spin and was hit on the right front fender. That spun it back a ways, and it was hit a third time, on the left front fender. It was bouncing around like a rubber ball." The accident-report diagram, said a state highway patrol lieutenant, looked "like somebody took a bunch of dominoes and just threw them down. The cars are pointed every which way. and at least a third of them are pointed back where they came from...
...piped through a heat exchanger and turns liquid potassium (boiling point, 1,400° F.) to high-pressure gas that runs a turbine producing 300 kw. to 1,000 kw. of electricity. The potassium gas goes to a wide, flat condenser to be turned back into a liquid (see diagram...
...high-powered game of catch begins with a supersonic rocket sled streaking down three miles of rail shoved by five Nike-Hercules missile engines (see diagram). After traveling along the track for half a mile, the sled is moving at more than 1,000 m.p.h. and its rockets are cut off. Split seconds later, a pair of iss-mm. howitzers beside the track blast away at the decelerating sled. Their shells, moving at 1,088 m.p.h., quickly catch up with the target, slam into it, and are stopped with scarcely a scratch by a bale of synthetic rubber. Then...
They bored a slanting shaft deep into their mountain (see diagram). Above the shaft they mounted a heliostat (a flat mirror). As the mirror turns to follow the sun across the sky, it reflects the sun's rays down the shaft where they are reflected back and focused by a concave mirror. Bounced back toward the top of the shaft, the light is intercepted at ground level by another mirror and angled into a vertical well. There the sun's image can be examined on a flat screen, photographed, or studied with a spectrograph...