Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger that they would all be killed at once. Medics are allowed in the field only seven months because they start developing an obsessive sense of responsibility. Says Glasser, "They begin getting freaky, cutting down on their own water and food so they can carry more medical supplies; stealing plasma bottles, writing parents and friends for medical catalogues so they can buy their own endotracheal tubes." Some carried M & M candies as placebos, slipping the sweets between the lips of the wounded "as they whispered to them over the noise of the fighting that it was for the pain...
...plasma physics, after a significant 1968 Soviet breakthrough in the containment of thermo nuclear power, U.S. scientists ran confirming experiments that suggested that "this almost limitless, pollutionless source of energy may be nearer than was once expected. But the U.S. effort is having funded at a level, cut back again this year, that could put off this development as much as 25 to 50 years." In the life sciences, research funds are still lagging some 20%, or at least $250 million per year, behind research capacity...
...with 0.5% silver nitrate solution. The new dressings cut the rate of infection by pseudomonas bacteria-once the primary cause of burn deaths-in half. In addition, Dr. Irving Feller of the University of Michigan burn center in Ann Arbor has developed a treatment that combines infusions of blood plasma from immunized donors with shots of anti-pseudomonas vaccine. The treatment, which has been in use since 1965, has cut the infection death rate from...
...slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects on the axe's downward lunge, a pleasant bit of work-glorifying imagery. For the great part of the film's duration, however, the audience is merely...
Alfvén, 62, a Swedish physicist, was cited for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of plasmas-the ionized (electrically charged) gases that make up the bulk of matter in the universe. Ignored at first, his work became important in the late 1940s when the plasma waves he had postulated were detected in the laboratory. Soon his theories may produce a bigger dividend: physicists are convinced that plasmas offer the only practical means of attaining the enormous temperatures (630 million degrees F.) needed for controlled nuclear fusion. Restlessly, Alfvén has already expanded into other fields: cosmology...