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Every drop of ordinary water contains about 2,000 atoms of tritium, a key ingredient of the hydrogen bomb. This seemingly startling discovery was announced last week by Drs. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago and A. V. Grosse of Temple University. But no one need swear off drinking water-at least for that reason. Only one quintillionth (1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000) of its hydrogen atoms are tritium. An explosion is not likely...
...poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...Drs. Kelly & Friesen questioned 200 people, 100 of whom had cancer. Of the 100 cancerous patients, 85 said that they knew it already; 15 said that they hadn't known about it. Of the 100, 89 said that they preferred to know, 6 wished they had not been told, 5 were undecided. Asked whether everybody with cancer should be told, 73 of the 100 said...
...Maids & Agitators. Drs. Kroger and Freed believe that U.S. wives should enjoy sex as much as their husbands do. After serious study of the "psychosomatic aspects" of female coldness, Kroger and Freed view the sexual sensitivity of U.S. women as varying all the way from "complete anesthesia to exquisite receptivity." Convinced that 75% of U.S. women are more or less "sexually anesthetized," the doctors suggest a few basic causes of frigidity...
...importance of emotional factors in bringing on stomach ulcers is well known, but one of the doctor's problems is to decide which of his patients are "the ulcer type." To help their colleagues, Drs. Albert J. Sullivan and Thomas E. McKell of New Orleans' Ochsner Clinic have written a bright, breezy new monograph, Personality in Peptic Ulcer (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield...