Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although no firm results were drawn because of a series of uncontrollable variables including problems with the testing equipment--electrodes and transgenetics receiver--and difficulties with scheduling, Kabat-Zinn says he hoped to try the experiment again, possibly later this year.
The men's basketball team outshot the national college foulshooting record by four percent last year, but Coach Frank McLaughlin says, "we don't have enough time with Harvard's academic pressures," to experiment with meditation. His coaching theories however, stress many similar point review strategy carefully before the games...
Early on Christmas morning, just before the faintest glimmerings of dawn over the Pacific, a group of scientists from the U.S., West Germany and Britain will begin their holiday celebrations by monitoring a unique experiment: the creation of the first man-made comet. A satellite orbiting some 70,000 miles...
In the first experiment, begun last fall, the satellites provided some indication that the magnetosphere presents a more solid barrier to the solar wind than had previously been believed. Soaring beyond the magnetosphere, the Christmas comet will enable scientists to study the effects of the solar wind on an object...
...expected to last 45 min. but took 1½ hr. "He was very upset about that but still cooperated with us," said DeVries, adding, "He kind of told me off." Though Schroeder agreed to the tests before the implant, new questions have been raised about the ethics of further experimentation on a patient who has already undergone experimental surgery. Replied DeVries: "If you ask Schroeder what it means being a guinea pig, which we have, he says it's kind of a tradeoff. He gets life and he's able to help people after...