Word: farquhar
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...where the gravitational pull of the sun precisely nullifies terrestrial gravity) 930,000 miles from the earth. Its mission: to study the effect of the solar wind on the earth's magnetic field. Yet even as ISEE-3 sniffed at solar breezes, its flight director, NASA Aerospace Engineer Robert Farquhar, was plotting to divert it somehow toward a comet. "The craft was custom-made to measure plasma waves," he explains, "and that's exactly what you find at the back of a comet...
Lowering salt intake seems to reduce hypertension too. Beginning in 1972, Dr. John Farquhar of Stanford University conducted a three-year study of 1,500 men and women selected at random in three California towns. In two of the towns, subjects cut salt intake 30%. In the third, no dietary change was made. The result: blood pressure was 6.4% lower among the low-salt people than in the control town...
...RECRUITING OFFICER by George Farquhar...