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...Explore ethical and philosophical issues: When does a person become a person? Does life begin at the moment of conception, when the heartbeat starts, or when he emerges from the womb...
Tobacco is a basic tool of learning. It soothes a mind boggling at books, smoothes the heartbeat, quiets the nerves. A man can gather information without books, but to digest it without tobacco is purest folly. Knowledge fills the mind; a good cigar expands...
...title refers to the roll of drums by which the inhabitants of a city under siege announce surrender; since it also denotes a feverish heartbeat, it is a handy metaphor for a romantic novel. The heart that beats retreat belongs to lovely, lazy Lucile, who at 30 has been drifting gracefully through an affair with a wealthy, fiftyish fellow named Charles. She meets Antoine, a young, intense and impecunious publisher's reader, who supplements his income by living with Clare, a middle-aged Parisian hostess...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...
Rogallo made minor modifications in his dust detector, the biologists supplied the egg, and the unborn chick's heartbeat registered strongly through its unbroken shell. As proof, Rogallo exhibited the live and healthy chick of a bobwhite quail whose incubation had been monitored but undisturbed. And, said Dr. Hartwig proudly, the Food and Drug Administration is completing the space-to-chick-to-man cycle: it is using Rogallo's sensor to study the effects of drugs on the heart...