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Throughout the sequence, Uncle T listened with agitation. "The weird thing about this," he exclaimed, "is that Spellman just died. This is hitting 'em right in the face, and a lot of people really aren't going to digit. It's going to infuriate a lot of people...
Because finger nerves are too small for grafting, the transplanted digit has little or no sensation, and there is not much flexion at its joints. The new finger must be moved as a unit from the knuckle. This is no great drawback, particularly for thumb grafts, which have enabled patients to pick up and use tools, a pen, a spoon or a glass...
...Julian is different; he takes things less seriously. When talking to the Harvard kids running the SOUTHERN COURIER, an Alabama weekly, he suggested they run a box on their front page with a picture of a bird, any bird, entitled "Wise Old Bird." Then underneath the bird any three-digit lottery number...
...telephone used to be a friend, something you said hello to and took for granted. But since the advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no longer is necessarily either square or black, has inspired admiration in some, irritation in others. Both the admiration and the irritation make little difference, because increasingly there is no real person to talk to anyway...
Computers on Earth digested the pictures, digit by digit, and "developed" them by translating the numerical values into the correct shades of light to be projected onto a photographic film. All told, Mariner was programmed to take and transmit up to 21 such pictures of Mars. But excited Mariner engineers could not wait for the first transmission to be completed before they sneaked their first look. They processed the half picture received by the Johannesburg and Madrid tracking stations even before Goldstone, which had taken over tracking when the others lost contact, could supply its half of the tape...