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...galaxies seen in far-off space, he says, may in fact be anti-galaxies made up of anti-stars with anti-planets revolving about them. "While you and I sit talking here," he tells an interviewer, "there exists somewhere else an anti-you scribbling with an anti-pencil while an anti-I fiddles with an anti-letter opener. To an anti-you, it would look just like the letter opener here in my hand, but the present you would not live to see it. The anti-matter in an anti-letter opener of this size would create a bigger explosion...
...year later, staring down the barrel of a microscope, Feynman saw magnified 40 times a turntable motor that easily met his specifications. Devised by William H. McLellan, a 35-year-old engineer for a Pasadena research firm, the motor was fifteen thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous" principle that...
...fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth, wax crayons, a pencil, a chocolate bar, a chicken neck, hen manure, a dead sparrow, a rat skull and a whole mouse. Even if feathers prove to be poor disease carriers, concluded Lind dryly, "we should consider that the renovation of old feather pillows is of importance from the standpoint of general good housekeeping...
...Study is being conducted on two levels. All the participants will take a series of 25 "paper and pencil" tests, but a small group of 50 will take additional tests, including the Rorschach ink-blot test, and will be interviewed by King and other members of the Study staff through the year...
...information and questions and answers that instruct the student as he works. The first question appears in a window at the top of the box, and a blank space is provided in another window for the student to write out his answer. When he is finished, he inserts his pencil eraser in a vertical slot, moves the page up until the second question and the answer to the first appear in the window. The paper cannot be moved backward to find the answer first...