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...involving such chemicals as ozone (a deadly poison) and nitrogen dioxide (an insidious and lethal gas when it hits the lungs). U.S. Public Health Service Toxicologist Sheldon Murphy neatly proved the perils of sunlight by exposing guinea pigs to city-street concentrations of exhausts. Unirradiated, the gases did little harm; after exposure to artificial sunlight, they made the animals sick, several of them fatally. In Los Angeles, automobiles spew out almost 80% of the smog-producing hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, and the afterburners now being compulsorily installed on California cars cannot do the whole job of cleaning up the city...
...Will he harm the little girl or is his feeling for her pure? It must be pure. "He's like a child. He's reliving his childhood...
Kathleen O. Elliot, dean of South House, has suggested that a double reporting system be applied to signouts at Radcliffe. Under the plan, a girl would be required to report not only her own late returns, but also those of her friends. Such a system can only do more harm than good...
...almost certainly happened without consultation. They may be stuck with each other's actions, but they no longer seem to coordinate them in advance. In the future, it will be up to Western strategists to take advantage of the fact that, while Russia and China can do immense harm separately, they are as of now neither marching nor hitting together...
...language barrier is more likely ultimately to harm the scientist than it is the humanist; for while the scientist can dip into literature, criticism, and history if he is so inclined, the classicist cannot ruminate for a pleasant evening over the latest volume on automorphic functions, even were he so inclined. If the scientist cannot make contact about science with humanists, he faces the prospect of mumbling to himself about those things to which he has devoted his best energies and talents...