Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Physicist Edwin McMillan, 63, Nobel laureate and head of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, had seen in his own lab the same flashes of light that astronauts see in space when their eyes are closed. Furthermore, he said, the experiment showed that atomic particles were causing the flashes -not through impact with the optic nerve or passage through the eye fluid, but by penetrating the retina itself...
...encouragement of black pride through curriculum in black studies (Hurst teaches the course on institutional racism that is required of all students). In addition, students are spurred by the prospect of solid jobs in the growing fields for which the school's vocational programs prepare them, including medical lab work, industrial plant engineering, nursing and even police work...
...systems were overhauled. Although three manned Soyuz ships were fired off in rapid succession in 1969, the Soviets failed to make good on hints that the ships would dock and set up a rudimentary space station. In April, the Soviets followed up the orbiting of their unmanned Salyut space lab with the launch of Soyuz 10, but it took the three men aboard the smaller ship more than 24 hours to rendezvous and dock with the station. When the hookup was finally made, undisclosed problems forced them to back off and return abruptly to earth...
...contrast, the follow-up flight of Soyuz 11 was trouble-free from the start. Using improved docking techniques, it easily attached itself to the awkward-looking, tubular-shaped space lab. Upon entering Salyut's trailer-sized interior, Dobrovolsky cheerfully announced: "This place is tremendous. There seems to be no end to it." Through most of the mission, the cosmonauts remained in remarkably good humor. While a TV camera recorded their activities, they performed exercises, engaged in numerous scientific experiments and even cast the first votes from space-affirming their support of the Communist Party's policies...
Back to the Lab. Since he had no stopwatch either. Meriwether had no idea how fast he was until he began competing in local meets last summer. "No one was more surprised than I was," he says, when he ran successive 100-yd. dashes in 9.6, 9.5 and 9.4 sec. In Meriwether's first major meet, the National Invitational in College Park, Md., in January, a field of world-class sprinters got an even bigger surprise. He won the 60-yd. dash in 6 sec. flat, just one-tenth of a second off the world record, despite a characteristically...