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...Howard Green, chairman of the Physiology Department at the Medical School, has pioneered a method of growing a one-inch-square sample of skin and in three or four weeks cultivating enough new skin to cover an entire body...
...tankers that sprayed water and fire-retardant chemicals from above. Despite the efforts, Schwinden observed, "you don't fight a fire like this. You simply get people out of the way and wait for the winds to die down." Late in the week the winds eased, and an inch of rain fell on the western portion of the state, allowing shallow trenches dug by fire fighters to halt the spread often of the fires...
Until now, camcorders have been limited to JVC's Video Movie and Sony's Betamovie models, both of which use half-inch tapes. Kodak's new 5-lb. 8-mm camcorder is designed to make filming of home movies easier. Another major advantage of the new models is a worldwide standardized format that will enable them to use any 8-mm tape; half-inch systems are not standardized. Kodavision sells for $1,600 to $2,600, depending on accessories, compared with $1,500 to $1,800 for those camcorders that use the wider tape...
...however, Kodavision has got mixed reviews. Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, a trade newsletter, rates it "an extremely easy-to-use, easy-to-handle instrument but one that currently falls short of achieving the best possible results to be realized from the top quality half-inch equipment today...
Once extracted, the follicular fluid is rushed to an adjoining laboratory and examined under a microscope to confirm that it contains an egg (the ovum measures only four-thousandths of an inch across). The ova are carefully washed, placed in petri dishes containing a solution of nutrients and then deposited in an incubator for four to eight hours. The husband, meanwhile, has produced a sperm sample. It is hardly a romantic moment, recalls Cleveland Businessman Popela, who made four trips to Cambridgeshire with his wife, each time without success. "You have to take the jar and walk past a group...