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While Senator and first-American-to-orbit-Earth John Glenn once again gained national attention last week--this time for his role as a geriatric guinea pig aboard the space shuttle Discovery--Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was busy investigating Glenn's sleep patterns...
There are those who have criticized Glenn's mission as a mere publicity stunt to revitalize NASA's flagging space program. After all, Glenn is merely a guinea pig on the nine-day journey. Dubbed "Payload Specialist 2," he is the lowest ranking member of the crew...
Embarrassed as they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation--especially given how badly Hallam wanted that arm. He was so eager to be a guinea pig, in fact, that he'd also registered with a U.S. group that had hoped to be the first to transplant a hand. The winning team insisted they were not in a race with the Americans or anyone else, but they couldn't help crowing last week. "They may well be in a race with us," Australian microsurgeon Dr. Earl Owen told the New York Times, "but they will...
While the conference showed countries' capacity for cooperation, it also revealed some of their differences. U.S. students for example have more standard preparation than in other countries. In New Guinea the government needs to educate students who speak 860 different languages in remote pockets of countryside...
When scientists first spotted it last fall, it was just a wedge of chilly water, parked at a depth of 70 fathoms in the western Pacific and extending from Papua New Guinea to the international dateline. As they tracked it over the next few months, following its development through a vast network of buoys tethered to the sea floor, it slowly expanded up and east, toward South America. Now, like a spume-blowing whale, it has broken through to the surface, forcing temperatures across a 5,000-mile strip of ocean to drop more than 15[degrees]F in just...