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...fire never had a chance to spread to adjoining rooms. By ten, the firemen were coiling the hose and beginning to leave, and people started to filter back into the entry. Damage in G-41 was con fined to the furniture, smoke blackening water stains, and a small charred strip up one side of a closet door...
...resulting extract, he said, caused identical cancers when it was injected into other hens. Since he was sure he had removed all cancer cells from the extract, Dr. Rous was thus convinced that what was left must be a filter able virus...
Moore, of Buffalo's Roswell Park Me morial Institute, agreed that filters could reduce the chances of disease. By last week, though, Dr. Moore had second thoughts. His latest tests showed that some filtered cigarettes let through more tar and nicotine than do cigarettes of the same brand without filter tips...
...Filter in the Vein. The possibilities of surgical staplers are not limited to sealing off tissue. One instrument is capable of joining two hollow organs such as the stomach and small intestine, simultaneously cutting the necessary opening between them and stapling them together, in a 5-minute procedure that usually requires 20 minutes or more of scalpel work and stitching. One experimenter with the staplers, Dr. Mark Ravitch of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has worked out a new way to prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body...
...Last week, as if all of Solomon's wives had for once displayed the wisdom of Solomon, these groups agreed on a simple solution that by 1970 will forever end the threat of pollution at Lake Tahoe. A mammoth disposal plant (6,000,000 gallons' capacity) will filter the waste to the acceptable standard for drinking water, and three export pipelines will be constructed to carry the "effluents," as the processed waste is called, over the mountains and out of the Tahoe Basin completely. Pollution control will cost $40 million; but besides keeping Tahoe true blue, it will...