Word: hamster
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...tank filled with swimming goldfish looked like any other pet-shop aquarium, but the hamster hopping about inside the tank raised more than a few eyebrows. Sealed in an air-filled chamber, the hamster was staying nicely alive in his underwater environment without the help of lines or pipes leading to the air above the surface...
Keeping the water out of the hamster's container was an all-but-invisible silicone rubber film. But what was truly remarkable was that the film was acting like a membrane, drawing oxygen out of the water for the hamster to breathe. Just as remarkable, the porous film was also carrying the hamster's exhaled carbon dioxide into the water...
...food to mother mice to study its effect on sucklings; his pal built a Geiger counter to help out. One eighth-grader analyzed Detroit newspapers to see how fairly they covered Michigan's gubernatorial campaign. Another designed a tiny bathysphere with sensing devices, so he can send a hamster to the bottom of a deep lake and record its reactions...
...papers presented at the assembly were selected from among 24 abstracts, most representing two or three years of intensive investigation. The authors selected include: Charles R. Jorgenson (fourth year), "A Common Pathway for Sugar Transport in Hamster Small intestine;" Charles W. Loes (fourth year), "The Control of Galastone-Formenting Enzymes in N. Coli:" and Aalph A. W. Lehman (fourth year), "Perfusion Studies of Diodrast and Isulin Transport Out of Cerebrospinal Fluid...
...Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky on his Wheaties. The next, when the mink he gives the broad turns out to be hoked-up hamster, he screeches in outrage: "I'll sue the guy I stole it from!" And again, eying with some concern a low-back frock his honey has ladled herself into, he inquires thoughtfully: "Say, Virgie. Ain't you got that dress on backwards...