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Today, with nearly every notable 19th century industrial structure in Western Europe safely preserved on film, the Bechers look forward to focusing more on objects of the future. The one such object that they see as "utterly representative of its period in man's history" is the spidery lunar module that successfully carried men to the moon...
Last week 202 specialists in half a dozen sciences met at the University of Rhode Island for a roundup conference on the progress and problems connected with mining the seas for drugs. Almost to a man, they complained of lack of funds-a shortage intensified by recent cutbacks in governmental grants-and proclaimed their support of Senator Warren Magnuson's bill to set up a National Institute of Marine Medicine and Pharmacology. In speech after speech they pointed out that the vast majority of all known forms of animal life are found in the sea, which they expect...
...from algae and seaweeds, and have made salts (alginates) with a wide variety of medicinal properties. Some help tablets to disintegrate more rapidly in the stomach. Others form the basis of anti-clotting drugs and of preparations to control surface bleeding. Sodium alginate has the exciting ability to reduce man's absorption of radioactive strontium by about...
...task of determining the chemical identity of the isolated substance. Once that is done, it must be tested in animals to find out whether its germ-killing powers outweigh whatever undesirable side effects it may have. If the compound proves both safe and effective enough to be tested in man, the laboratory chemists will face the task of either synthesizing it or using the natural product as the base for a semisynthetic drug, the technique that is used in producing cephalothin...
Allen's comic sense operates on the principle of disparity. His heroes are flies intent on building spiderwebs. In Take the Money and Run, he portrays Virgil Starkwell, a man who would get flustered crossing the street, and imbues him with the delusion that he can master the split-second timing, minute detail and cool bravado needed to become a successful bank robber. Result: a criminal so consistently inept that he fails even to make the Ten Most Wanted list...