Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoes to kick the cops. All that the "hippies and yippies" can do, he said, is "lay down in a park and kick policemen with razor blades." In fact, not even the Chicago police claim that their men were kicked with blades. And, of course, there was simply no proof that either Communists or fellow travelers were responsible for the disruptions...
...inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism that is not applicable to medicine. Despite the statistical methods we are forced to use, one can still conclude that there is a safety borderline, which thalidomide crossed...
...Even now, he is capable of putting orbiting H-bombs into outer space, ready to drop on signal. Tomorrow his navies may be prepared to fight at sea with ships capable of speeds up to 100 knots; his armies may be organized to battle on land with compact, radiation-proof robots...
...hydrogen club, France is at least four years away from having a missile system capable of giving its big new bang the proper ride. Still, despite his recent troubles at home, Charles de Gaulle is determined to press ahead with his nuclear-weapon development program as the premier proof of his restoration of la gloire to France...
...experts who concur with Cross are Dr. Emil Wits-chi, senior investigator in reproduction and embryology for the Population Council, and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood. The stale-egg theory has been confirmed in animal experiments, but as Guttmacher concedes, it is more difficult to establish scientific proof...