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...earth. Though their ship may be sterilized inside and outside before re-entering the earth's atmosphere, it will be impossible to sterilize the men themselves. Like even the healthiest humans, the space travelers will be hives of earthly viruses, bacteria and protozoa, and among these familiar and harmless companions a few microscopic aliens may hide, ready to turn into killers when they reach the earth...
Some of the "radical and ill-conceived" safety ideas include the thought that "we abandon hope of teaching drivers to avoid traffic accidents and concentrate on designing cars that will make collisions harmless." This, he said, "is a little like suggesting that we neglect good health habits in favor of reliance on miracle drugs-and on some method of compelling people to take them...
...singing. Often crouching over his dulcimers like a worried physician or a mother singing to her baby, something striking them with bravado, he was a compelling figure. At some points he was consumed with ecstasy; at others he cried out in agony. Sometimes he looked like a harmless, forgotten old man, and then, a minute later, his eyes would glint and he would look like an imp, or a fiend...
...plasma by ionizing its atoms. The heavy current, which lasts only a few millionths of a second, creates a magnetic field that gives the plasma a powerful "pinch" and sends it squirting in brief bursts through a carefully shaped hole. The silent blue-white flash of escaping plasma looks harmless and feeble, but its temperature reaches as high as 200,000° F., and its particles shoot into the vacuum at 100,000 m.p.h...
...reads of the horrible, indifferent, heinous crimes of U.S. teen-agers today-appalling! But, then, one goes on to read the rest of your magazine about their glorious elders, and the teen-agers are absolved of guilt. Their so-called "crimes" are the most harmless pranks compared to those who would wield tanks, H-bombs and death for millions. Please, somebody right the world . . . and above all don't blame the young whom we have created in our own image...