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...There is a certain amount of hazard in all such research projects, as opposed to industrial machines which have imperfections ironed out by frequent revisions," he said...
...Pardon me, there, young man, but ascertaining from your dress I should hazard an estimate that you matriculate at Harvard A & M, am I correct...
THERE is, to many people, an essential injustice in bringing these men, who suffered bitterly, to trial. The injustice is compounded by the fact that no general instructions cover or could cover the behavior of men who are made captives by barbarians. Warfare in Korea brought the new hazard of capture by men who do not recognize international codes for the treatment of prisoners and who permitted no Red Cross inspection or interference...
Then came the meteorological kink that turned humdrum Carol into a raging hazard by leading her toward shore. It was a deep wave in the planetary wind, part of a disturbance that had been detected while still over the Pacific more than a week before. By 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, the wind was headed toward the north, carrying Carol at 35 to 40 m.p.h. toward Long Island. Warnings went out at once, but most people along the endangered coast had gone to bed unworried, confident that Carol would pass them by. Instead, she churned destructively across southeastern New England, destroying...
...been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April 20, 1953). The results so far, said...