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...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...
...when feet go down, the organs pull down the diaphragm and air is drawn into the lungs. Other advantages of the Eve rocker: wounds and burns of the trunk can be attended to while rocking is going on; anyone can teeter the board for hours on end; it is harmless-ribs and liver cannot be injured...
...fast that the drops cannot easily be counted - usually about 210 drops a minute. But the flow into the caudal space is only about 80 to 110 drops a minute. To determine whether the injecting tube is in the right space, they make a test flow with a harmless salt solution. If the flow is slow, they confidently go ahead with the anesthetic. If the flow is over 150 a minute, they try another anesthesia...
Conclusions. Wrote Professor Hill: "Much is being written about the 'menace' of the comics. Unfortunately a distinction is not always drawn between comic magazines and the comics of the daily papers. In [my] opinion, most of the latter are quite harmless. ... [I doubt] that the reading of [newspaper] comics would do any serious harm to a child's vocabulary attainments. Most of the words used would, in fact, tend to help him build vocabulary meanings. . . . We need to be much more concerned about the total effect of the comics on the attitudes and ethical concepts of children...
...from the city is likely to be nervous in the presence of jungle animals and jungle people, the book strives to reassure him : most animals are harmless unless bothered; except in New Guinea and Assam (India), jungle men are gentle - in fact, they like to play cat's cradle, and usually, if he treats them kindly, will not betray a man's presence to the enemy...