Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most difficult step of the experiment was finding the microwave frequencies of the compounds, Ball said. "We had to find the frequency that the molecule gave off in the lab first so that we could know what to look for on the return of the wave...
...publicity that accompanies a public figure often is followed by as he said, "300 crank letters," which ask for time consuming commitments that draw him away from his work. For this reason he didn't even want to look at the article when shown to him at his lab yesterday...
According to the article, "Watson's particular kind of thinking has had a remarkable effect on the section of the biology lab at Harvard that he directs with Dr. Walter Gilbert, and made it, many feel, the most productive in the country...
...totally new kind of water, a form so stable that it does not boil under 1,000° F., does not evaporate, and only begins to freeze at -40° F. One American scientist has even speculated that the strange, sticky substance would, if released from the lab, propagate itself by feeding on natural water, eventually turning the earth into another Venus (TIME, Dec. 19). Other scientists, however, have found all such claims hard to swallow...
...Soviet medicine's problems are hardly confined to personnel. Bureaucracy has overstandardized treatment and inhibited research. Lab equipment, drugs and anesthetics are in short supply; heart-lung machines are scarce. Psychiatric care is well below American and European standards. Health Minister Petrovsky admits that the biggest problem facing the country's medical system is "improvement of the material and technological base." Until the problem is solved, Soviet medicine, though free and highly accessible, will remain abreast of the West in knowledge, but years behind in the ability...