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...same limited supply of oxygen over and over, four California college students might as well be in far-off space. And that is the idea. Ever since they were sealed up in a white steel cylinder in an outbuilding behind the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Santa Monica plant on Feb. 19, the students have been testing a life-support system designed for future orbital missions t hat could last for 60 days or longer...
Compounding the confusion, marijuana itself is an inexact term. All marijuana comes from the female hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, which grows worldwide. As the plants ripen, their flower and seed heads exude a resin that contains the highest natural concentration of active cannabis chemicals. The pure resin is hashish, a combination of powerful chemicals. Hashish, by Giordano's own testimony, rarely reaches...
...force, close to the 14-year low of 3.5% that was reached in mid-January. Total employment hit a new high of 75.8 million, and joblessness among nonwhite workers fell from 7.2% in February to 6.9%, or 615,000. Business investment, led by an estimated 3½% gain in plant and equipment spending, was stronger in the first quarter than Government economists had expected. Housing starts, at their 1,500,000-a-year February rate, have risen 35% from last year's low. Retail sales, which climbed for the third straight month during March, were propelled by a significant...
This summer dry, sound-treated seeds be planted outside the laboratory on an experimental farm, where they will sprout, reach maturity and produce the grain yield per plant shows a substantial increase over plants from untreated seed, Dr.Weinberger be11eves, the time may be ripe for practical use of the sound technique For only $300, she says, a sma11 farmer could then buy an oscillator and a speaker to stimulate his wheat seed into highly profitable growth...
...material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway. Meanwhile, Enrico Fermi had constructed the world's first working uranium pile in Chicago-using graphite as a moderator...