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Psychologist Vince is not sure what causes the clicking, but she thinks it is associated with lung ventilation and serves as a form of communication be tween the eggs. As more mature embryos move toward the hatching stage, she says, their clicking stimulates faster development of younger embryos in adjacent eggs, so that all of the eggs hatch around the same time. To check her theory, she shortened the normal incubation period of a quail egg by placing it in a nest of other quail eggs that began incubation at least 24 hours earlier. Stimulated by the surrounding clicks...
Sweden's Dr. Clarence Crafoord, one of the world's greatest heart-lung surgeons, caused a public outcry earlier this month when he suggested that a person should be declared dead when a flat EEG pattern shows that his brain has definitely and irrevocably ceased to function. Dr. Crafoord was concerned about truly hopeless cases, but the kin of patients being kept alive with mechanical aids jumped to the conclusion that he meant the devices should be shut off, the patients declared dead, and their organs used for transplants...
When tabulation is complete, he will try to relate details of physique to chances of contracting lung cancer and heart disease. With these figures, he hopes that anthropologists and physicians will be able to predict life expectancy much more accurately than is now possible...
...TIME, April 29). For more than 41 days, with never a falter after the first hour, it had done three-quarters of the work normally done by the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. What suddenly killed DeRudder last week was a rupture of the left lung. A plastic tube slipped through a small cut in his windpipe had been delivering oxygen under pressure to his lungs. What actually caused the rupture was a mystery...
Died. Leverett Saltonstall Jr., 48, oldest son and namesake of the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, an agronomy Ph.D. from Cornell who raised grain on his 800-acre working farm; of lung cancer; in Ithaca...