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Better Red than Dead. Blood may save lives wholesale if fresh, and each year more than 2,000,000 Americans get a total of some 5,500,000 transfusions of it. But after three weeks, as more and more of its red cells die, it may do more harm than good, and its use is prohibited. Time-expired blood can be salvaged up to the 26th day by removing the cells, which are thrown away, and saving the virtually imperishable plasma, used for burned patients and patients who are in shock...
Agreeing with Hughes, Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, said. "Only harm can come from a testing resumption." He claimed that man has not yet been able to determine at what point radioactivity becomes dangerous on either short or long-term levels...
Ending the Rumbles. Grillo argues that individual welfare organizations often do more harm than good in fighting blight; working independently of one another, they duplicate one another's efforts or, worse still, expend their energies in squabbles over welfare dollars. Grillo's solution is a master plan to coordinate the particular skills of each department and agency in a massive, sustained attack on Oakland's problems. "We've got to do everything at once,'' he says, "and in a coordinated...
...male silkworms yield almost one-third more silk than those of females, so Dr. Astaurov concentrated next on making silkworm eggs hatch into males. His most successful technique is to expose unfertilized eggs to X rays. This rough treatment kills the delicate female genetic material but does no apparent harm to other parts of the eggs. Then Dr. Astaurov fertilizes the eggs with male sperm that has not been irradiated. When the embryos develop, they are free of female influence; they all grow into high-yield male silkworms...
...world for long. Reminded of his prophecy of last year that "there won't be a 1962," he alibied: "Perhaps I just slipped a digit. What is a year? At least when a writer makes a mistake, it doesn't do you any harm, but the politicians...