Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contraption to which Bigelow is chained and bound with ropes. Connected to a three-minute timer, a door fitted with 8-in, steel knives will swing shut on Bigelow if he does not escape in time. He usually does, Bigelow also performs an escape sealed inside a heavy plastic bag with a poison snake...
...Forbath, the Congo has settled into something resembling stability. A confederation of tribes has been loosely tied into the nation of Zaire. The country, Forbath writes, is becoming un recognizable. "The tribal villages are also by and large gone . . . displaced by dreary modern mining towns" where tribes men wear plastic hard hats and carry lunch buckets, and "fires can be seen burning everywhere, burning through the grass, blackening the earth, destroying the land." But the river remains unchanged...
...School students now carry plastic identification cards with their pictures attached, but the photo badges will include larger pictures and will save students the trouble of having to pull out an I.D. card to show building guards, Paula O'Malley, action information desk manager at the Med School, said yesterday...
...carefully selected patients, many leading ophthalmologists are now replacing clouded human lenses with such permanent plastic substitutes; the doctors say the operation carries no more risk than the conventional surgery used to remove cataracts. What is more, the operations seem to have been remarkably successful. Of the patients who received implants last year, 85% have essentially normal vision...
...lens implant provides vision almost matching that of the natural lens without these troubling side effects. Moreover, the plastic lenses, available in a variety of designs and optical powers, can be chosen before implantation to correct other vision problems, including near-and farsightedness. By picking the correct power of the implant lens, New York Medical College Ophthalmologist Miles Galin, who has done more than 2,000 implants, is often able to reassure patients before surgery: 'You'll probably see better without glasses than you did before the cataract developed...