Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holes in the Head. Three weeks ago, after innumerable experiments on animals to test accuracy, effectiveness and safety, the first human patients were wheeled in. Preparation took far longer than actual treatment. Under a local anesthetic four little dents were burred into the patient's skull, one above each eye and two in the back of the head. On a rolling table, the patient was wheeled back so that his head was under a stereotaxic (space-positioning) instrument. A pin on a micrometer mounting fitted into each burr hole. X rays revealed the main landmarks inside the skull. They...
...operation, each patient got only a local anesthetic, an injection of procaine hydrochloride into the scalp. Then, with a drill and saw, Dr. Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed...
...first time, parents would have a real yardstick to measure their schools. If the local school continued to teach such pleasant subjects as 'Life Adjustment' and 'How to know when you are really in love,' instead of French and physics, its diploma would be, for all the world to see, inferior. Taxpayers will begin to wonder whether they are getting their money's worth . . . when their children find admission to college difficult because theirs is an inferior diploma...
...only two pages smaller than the mighty Times -and crammed with news of the six communities it serves. Says the editor of a prospering middle-sized Illinois daily: "The Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press come into our towns like a ton of bricks. But we cover the local news like a tent over a dime. For us. the biggest news in the world is that Mrs. Murphy painted her outhouse red this morning...
Nibbled to Death. Many fast-growing papers, such as California's San Bernadino Sun and Telegram (combined circ. 58,076), which cover the biggest county in the U.S.. fence metropolitan competitors with networks of string correspondents, special editions for local communities, one of the city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled...