Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpleasant fact is that the Viet Cong used the Tet assault to infiltrate into Saigon hundreds and perhaps even thousands of agents who pose as normal Vietnamese going about their jobs. The chief mission of such agents is to try to turn the resentment of the Saigonese against the government and the Americans, charging them with the destruction of the city after the V.C. invasion. Meanwhile, V.C. assassination squads operate in broad daylight. The results of their handiwork turn up-hands bound and bodies mutilated-in the river. The V.C. have been active in Saigon for years...
...very tentative suggestion" of experiments performed by NASA Physiologist Jiro Oyama, who has been raising mice and rats under artificial gravities created by centrifuges at Ames Research Center in California. Whirling on an 8½-ft. centrifuge, two female rats survived for 47 months, a year longer than their normal three-year life span...
...answer to their longevity may well be the depletion of body fat. In other centrifuge experiments, Oyama subjected weanling rats (three to four weeks old) to 4.7 G. for three to six months. Within 24 hours after he returned them to normal gravity by removing them from the centrifuge, the animals gained approximately 10% in body mass. Conversely, weanling rats raised under normal gravity lost about 10% of their mass-much of it in body fat-within 24 hours after being placed in the higher artificial gravity of a centrifuge. To probe the fat-depletion phenomenon further, Oyama plans...
...gain insight into possibly harmful effects, Oyama has been raising mice and rats in 4-and 8½-ft. radius centrifuges that create artificial gravities from twice to 4.7 times normal and spin continuously except for brief intervals when they are shut down to clean cages and replenish food supplies. When the test animals are finally removed and returned to the normal gravity of earth, their experience is roughly equivalent to that of astronauts suddenly subjected to weightlessness or to a fraction of terrestrial gravity...
...since the strike began. Though its circulation has dropped from 726,000 to 500,000 and it prints two editions instead of six, it continues to reach the streets and subscribers with its usual heavy load of columnists, features and wire-service copy. Ads are running about 60% of normal...