Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, strangers to the novels of Marcel Aymé may very well decide that he is merely setting the stage for slapstick. But as readers of The Barkeep of Element and The Miraculous Barber have reason to know, Author Aymé is one of the most formidable ironists alive. He takes Lead Merchant Cerusier for a quicksilver ride among such big questions as: How much of life is essence and how much appearance? Is a man what he looks...
...pinning down the tumor site with the aid of a dye tagged with iodine-131. Other doctors have not been able to get as good results so the search goes on. Boston's Dr. Abraham S. Freedberg is encouraged by the way radioactive rubidium (a rare trace element in the body) concentrates in the tumor more than in healthy brain tissue making the cancer easier to spot...
...first patient who received this treatment was almost unconscious when she went to Brookhaven. The woman could not talk and did not recognize her family. Into her bloodstream the doctors injected a solution containing boron, a common, stable element with an atomic weight of 10. But under neutron bombardment, boron-10 changes to an excited boron-11, which lives about one-hundredth of a trillionth of a second. In that infinitesimal fraction of time before it decays to stable lithium, it shoots out alpha particles...
...Joseph G. Hamilton, pioneering with it at the University of California complained that it lost its radioactivity too fast' Physicist Glenn Seaborg nodded, said-"I'll see what I can find." He found iodine-131 -Which is also believed to be the vital element in the H-bomb.*Thanks to the accident of prior discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough...
...Communism of Soviet Russia and its satellites represents today the active, dynamic element and the free world represents the static, passive element . . . The U.S. . . . can be destroyed by forces that, in themselves, seem weak-if those forces are active and if we are passive...