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Next day the hand was hot and so swollen it seemed ready to burst. The surgeons cut gashes in the skin between the fingers and down the back of the hand, and applied strong salt compresses to draw the fluid out. Very smart, said the U.S. surgeons in their critique. The swelling subsided within a week. After two months the metal plate was removed, but the bones were healing poorly, so the surgeons packed in bone chips as a sort of cement...
Like many shallow histories, The Appeasers is fun to read. The style is fluid and clear and the book is often funny. The condition of the Royal Air Force was so pathetic at the start of the war, for instance, that four small bombers failed miserably in dropping leaflets over Germany--two crashed and two returned home with their crews either frozen or incoherent. Unfortunately the style is also vicious and one-sided. On page after page, the authors repeat that there "was no substitute for singleminded action and efficient planning," that Britain was ruled by a group of "decayed...
...better than the boys. All take the same standard freshman calculus and chemistry; most wind up majoring in math or science. As for looks, Tech now boasts striking equations-long legs, wind-blown hair, fresh faces-attached to creatures who turn out to be working on doctorates in fluid dynamics while researching hydrofoils for the Navy...
...shown daily by forensic pathologists who solve a crime by analyzing a single spot of months-old blood. Less commonly known, said Dr. Sussman, is that 80% of people have similar substances, from which ABO grouping can be determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month, one-quarter of the stamp's back...
...phosphatase is present in the Martian dust, it will eat away the inhibiting phosphate, and the fluid in the multivator's chambers will begin to glow. That glimmer will then be picked up by a photomultiplier tube, converted into a radio signal in the Mariner capsule, and relayed back to earth...