Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient explanations last week when he demonstrated his art on a nearly nude young woman on WNET, New York's educational television station. He had been treating the patient, Worsley said, for digestive complaints and mental disorientation. The "cure" was accomplished, he said, by regulating the flow of energy to various organs...
...Northville (Mich.) State Hospital and a participant in the Einstein operation, subscribes to the neurological approach put forward by Professor Ronald Melzack of McGill University. Called the "gate control theory" of pain, it holds that certain nerve cells in the spinal cord can either inhibit or intensify the flow of pain impulses to the brain. If the theory is correct, implantation of acupuncture needles could prevent pain in two ways: first, by blocking the transmission of pain sensations from peripheral nerves to the spinal cord and thus to the brain; second, by shutting down the pain reception center...
...there are no natural vents. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is now trying to exploit the dry, hot (600° F.) granite that underlies most of the earth. Scientists plan to sink two holes 15,000 ft. deep, then pump cold water down one well and let hot steam flow up the other. If successful, the dry-rock system might provide, says one scientist, "all the electricity America will need for the next 3,000 years...
...easily be produced to use 50% less power. More important, there is plenty of room for improvement in methods of generating and transmitting electricity. One remedy is an advanced but until recently neglected system with the awesome name of magnetohydrodynamics. MHD can produce electricity directly from the high-velocity flow of hot, ionized gases, with 60% efficiency instead of the present 35%. Similarly, superconductive, supercold (-320° F.) power lines can cut transmission losses. Though both technologies are costly, they would yield much more power per unit of fuel with less pollution...
Good Mood. The talks amounted to a "constant flow," a White House aide remarked. Once Nixon and Brezhnev came to some agreement, lesser officials headed by Henry Kissinger on the American side and Gromyko on the Soviet negotiated the details. Secretary of State William Rogers talked trade. Kissinger seemed more solemn than usual, a bit more preoccupied...