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...healthy men had more striking and largely unexplained changes. Merely standing up put a notch in their T waves or turned them upside down; so did a heavy meal, after which, walking upstairs flattened the ST segment or pushed it below the base line. The researchers wondered whether the phenomena reflected varying degrees of atherosclerosis. Healthy young women, their arteries protected by a normal supply of estrogens, supplied an emphatically negative answer. Dr. Hinkle reported to the American College of Physicians that the young women's ECGs seemed to be at least as variable...
...testing three course outlines for student interest at this time. One course would discuss the degradation of the environment, considering such topics as air and water pollution. Another would explore research in the physics of solids with attention to such relevant developments as transistors. The third would consider electrical phenomena, including the laser...
...study?and what cannot be known that way somehow seems uninteresting, unreal. In previous ages, the man of ideas, the priest or the philosopher was regarded as the font of wisdom. Now, says Jenkins, the sage is more likely to be an authority "trained in scientific methods of observing phenomena, who bases what he says on a corpus of knowledge built up by observation and experiment and constantly verified by further processes of practice and observation." The prestige of science has been helped along by the analytic tradition of philosophy, which tends to limit "meaningful" ideas and statements to those...
...sure sign of primaveral delirium, the sighting touched off pandemic reports of preternatural phenomena across the U.S. Manner's drop-in was followed by a shimmering object that settled obligingly on a marshy Michigan hollow in full view of 87 Hillsdale Col lege coeds and a county civil-defense director. Ann Arbor's Democratic Congressman Weston E. Vivian called for a Defense Department investigation of the unearthly goings-on. Michigan's Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, suggested a congressional inquiry. Air Force investigators donned hip boots to slog through Michigan marshland...
...Once you've worked with them, it's hard not to return." In 1959 he accepted the offer of an assistant professorship at Caltech and came back to Pasadena. The following year, after immersing himself in the specialties of his American colleagues-spectroscopy, cosmic radiation and extragalactic phenomena-he took over the job of retiring Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, who had been working on spectrograms of radio galaxies. Almost immediately, he found himself "struggling quietly" with the riddle of the curious objects that turned out to be quasars...