Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smothering Rage. When Mafia men are in trouble, the author contends, "help has a mysterious way of arriving in the nick of time." In the Franzese trial it came just before the judge's charge to the jury, in the form of a letter from a Sing Sing convict named Walter Sher. The letter claimed that one of Mosley's witnesses had admitted to Sher that he himself had killed The Hawk. In an emotional plea, Mosley argued that Sher was a psychopath, who had written the letter without even being asked, hoping to receive favors in prison...
...computer, store reams of data and perform myriad mathematical calculations. Moreover, controlling the position of the bubbles is relatively simple. One method is to send small electric currents through tiny circuits printed on the surface of the crystalline wafer; the currents generate magnetic fields that cause bubbles to form at predetermined locations in the wafer. Currents passed through different branches of the printed circuits can form new bubbles, or move or erase existing bubbles. The same result can be achieved by the controlled motion of a magnetic field outside the crystal; this method eliminates the need for any electrical connections...
...hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead to important changes in the psychological treatment of the elderly and the seriously ill. If further study bears out this hypothesis, Phillips says, it will prove that "dying can be a form of social behavior...
...Netherlands, introduction of the value-added tax, a complex form of sales tax that is being adopted throughout the Common Market, helped to push the annual rate of inflation to a startling 6% to 7% before the government instituted its price freeze...
Marine pharmacologists have extracted alginic acid from algae and seaweeds, and have made salts (alginates) with a wide variety of medicinal properties. Some help tablets to disintegrate more rapidly in the stomach. Others form the basis of anti-clotting drugs and of preparations to control surface bleeding. Sodium alginate has the exciting ability to reduce man's absorption of radioactive strontium by about...