Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even with such sophisticated tools as strain gauges, laser beams and magnetometers to determine the buildup of dangerous stresses in the earth, scientists have had little success in forecasting major earthquakes. But as they have attempted to develop more complex quake-prediction devices, they may have been overlooking a simple one that predates man. A U.S. Government scientist reports that nature itself may provide a primitive early-warning system in the periodic eruptions of spectacular geysers like Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful...
Rockne Krebs' laser room is a sharper affair: intense beams of red, green and blue light slice through the darkness, rebounding from concealed mirrors to form an intricate lattice that almost abolishes any sense of bodily space. Indeed, one of the general effects of the "A. and T." show is to shift the focus from art as object to art as environmental sensation. The visitor is always being encompassed -by gas lighting or lasers or, in the case of Tony Smith's piece, by several thousand cardboard tetrahedrons and octahedrons supplied by the Container Corp. of America. Taped...
...Laser-guided bombing strikes are launched against the civilian areas of Laos." said Craven, a member of the U.S. student group which negotiated the People's Peace Treaty with North and South Vietnamese students in their native countries last year. He said that the U.S. was now using five, ten, and fifteen thousand ton bombs in Laos, "bombs that literally vibrate people to death even when they take refuge in caves and tunnels...
...biological revolution could make some of the choices easier. In the future, defective genes may be excised by pinpoint laser beams and replaced by viruses acting as man's genetic messengers in the body. Anguished man may also find his mental burdens lightened, as he turns to anti-aggression and knowledge pills, or learns to stimulate his brain's pleasure centers with electrodes...
Some molecular biologists envisage using laser beams to slice through DNA molecules at desired points, burning out faulty genes. These would then be replaced by segments of DNA tailored in the test tube to emulate a properly functioning gene and introduced into the body as artificial?and beneficial?viruses...