Word: germproof
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...titillating our parlor conversations, the ensuing panic would be something to see. Either we would head for the streets bearing clubs and torches, like the villagers in the Frankenstein movies, or we would bolt the doors like Howard Hughes, letting our fingernails grow toward heaven in prayers for a germproof sterility. That we do neither is as remarkable in its way as the Tylenol poisoning itself. The poisoning is, to put it mildly, an aspect of extreme behavior. One might think that its antidote would also consist of extreme behavior. But instead, all the public does in response to this...
...More than 40 universities and other scientific institutions have already asked for samples of this fascinating material, but the panel thinks their pleas should be rejected. It insists that the potentially dangerous moonstuff must be carried in germtight containers and must be stored when it reaches the earth in germproof rooms where it can be handled by remote control...
Surgeon Scales suggests that air-cushion levitation may be helpful in human patients by 1) reducing shock, 2) preventing loss of fluids by oozing from wound or burn areas, 3) quickly creating a dry, germproof "shield" over the wound, and 4) avoiding bedsores. How well a human patient would take to living on an upended wind tunnel, he does not yet know...
...operating room itself, walled in apple-green glass tile, is soundproof, dustproof, conditioned by gravity-fed air, and as nearly germproof and explosion-proof as human ingenuity can make it. Above the operating table, which can be tilted six ways, is a television camera (nested in a battery of lights) with lenses for closeup, normal and wide-view shots. The surgeons, anesthesiologist and physiologist wear combination stethoscope-intercom receivers...
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