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...mummy currently stands in the Ether Dome atMGH as a symbol of Egyptian medicine. From thatlocation, he has witnessed many medicalmilestones, including the first publicdemonstration of anaesthesia...
...role was doubtless played by rumors that created an explosive trading environment, like a roomful of ether waiting for a spark. One story, quickly squelched, was that Ronald Reagan had suffered a heart attack. Most of the other rumors involved speculation about renewed inflation and higher interest rates, the traditional enemies of stocks. At one point, word spread that two governors of the Federal Reserve believed interest rates, on a long two-year slide, had bottomed out. One broker was so confident of the information, which turned out to be false, that he told a client to call back...
Using crack is easier and less complicated than free-basing cocaine. Since powdered coke cannot be ignited and smoked, free-basers wash a cocaine base with ether to clean out impurities. Once dried, the residue is heated with a torch and smoked. The extreme volatility of ether makes this a dangerous way to get high--as the general public learned in 1980 when Comedian Richard Pryor set himself on fire while free-basing...
...Berk can testify, there are special risks in relying on computer systems that are shared with thousands of strangers. She once spent three days reconstructing her client contact list after an unidentified hacker broke into a confidential mailbox on The Source and dispatched her private storage files into the ether...
...centuries of cometary science were relatively uneventful. In 1823 German Astronomer Johann Franz Encke, who calculated the orbit of a periodic comet that bears his name (it reappears every 3.3 years), insisted that the orbit of "his" comet could not be explained solely by gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet...