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...cervix, inserting a metal tube attached to a small vacuum pump and drawing off the fetal matter into a bottle. Discomfort during the five-minute operation, which often includes a quick curettage, is minimal. Pain is all but eliminated in a refinement of vacuum aspiration developed by Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist: for pregnancies of less than ten weeks' duration, doctors use a thin plastic tube that is smaller in diameter than the more commonly used cannula. This avoids the dilatation process entirely...
...usually take at least three months to learn it. With Sim One's help, the training time may be cut to two days. Developed under a $272,000 U.S. Office of Education grant by the University of Southern California School of Medicine and Aerojet-General's Von Karman Center, the robot is life-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.). Its skin feels like skin, and it comes equipped with a tongue, vocal cords, an esophageal opening and bronchial tubes...
...Others were Mathematician John von Neumann, Physicist Hans Bethe, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman...
...scientists are Hungarian, he explained: "We are all from Mars originally. We decided to infiltrate the U.S. and were sent to Hungary - where some queer people live anyway -to be conditioned for human life." Though addicted to pretty women, as well as to slivovitz and strong cigars. Von Karman never married. He lived with his sister Josephine (Pipo), who managed much of his personal life until she died in 1951. Intimates expected the shock of her loss to kill him, but he continued his work with undiminished vigor. By his casual count, he had earned 24 honorary degrees, 10 decorations...
...Died. Theodore von Karman, 81, premier aerodynamicist; of a heart attack; in Aachen, West Germany (see SCIENCE...