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...will retain in Malaysia's new government) started a program of new roads, schools and clinics to boost the standard of living in the primitive kampongs (villages) of the interior, where the Communists were trying to gain a foothold. In the air-conditioned "operations room" of his ministry, gadget-loving Razak carefully watched the progress of his bulldozers on dozens of charts, movie screens and map displays, kept his program constantly ahead of schedule with his cold insistence on re sults-or else...
...says he has an intense desire to return to the womb-"anybody's." He owns an impatient tape recorder that constantly talks back at him, saying: "I know, I know, I know." His father, he remembers, once worked in a factory but was replaced by a small gadget. His mother, he says, bought...
...ingenious gadget, forbiddingly named the ophthalmodynamometer, has recently been devised to help in diagnosis. If blood flow through the internal ophthalmic artery is cut off, the eye on that side loses its vision. The doctor presses against the eyeball with the ophthalmodynamometer until the patient reports that he cannot see out of that eye. The instrument registers the pressure at which vision was cut off. This in turn indicates the pressure in the internal carotid artery and shows whether that vessel is dangerously narrowed. If it is, a DeBakey operation may prove to be the answer...
...absurd rhyme gives it the sound of a jingle thought up by the College outline series as a mnemonic gadget for students who must know the philosopher's main preoccupations. Even at that, it is confused and ineffectual. When I learn of belief clattering, I want to know more, to hear the clatter more distinctly; instead I am handed myth swooning, a concept at least equally vacuous...
When an underground gas main springs a leak, the break may not be found before enough gas has escaped to explode with devastating force. All over the U.S., gas companies are constantly on the alert for any gadget capable of pinpointing a small leak before it balloons into a big blowup...