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...learned endless ways to change his environment. He can raise or raze forests, reverse rivers, level mountains or reshuffle atoms, but he cannot alter the fact that his health depends, as always, upon the food he eats, the water he drinks and the air he breathes. To safeguard these, he has to work, in an endless spiral, for more complete control of his environment...
Expose. In Pamplona, Spain, magistrates at the city courthouse learned that 14 copper lightning rods, installed to safeguard the court during the perennial thunderstorms, had been sold on the black market in 1952 and secretly replaced by painted wooden poles...
...final Eisenhower program, submitted to Congress two weeks ago, embraces none of the Health Commission's recommendations. Instead it will protect the voluntary health insurance companies from unusual losses due to chronic or epidemic diseases--a plan similar to the government's financial safeguard for banks. Insurance companies could then afford to take on poorer risks--aged people with such ailments as rhemmatism, arthritis, tuberculosis, and heart diseases. But the program would lower rates little, leaving nearly one-half the nation unable to afford protection. And the Eisenhower plan makes no provision for increasing the flow of doctors from medical...
...produce tangible results. Sincere United states efforts to improve the economies of Latin nations will not only eliminate mistrust, but also help remove the breeding grounds of communism. In countries with backward economies communism has its greatest appeal. By bolstering its American allies, the United states can help safeguard the hemisphere from this threat. but economic cooperation will remain only a hope unless the present issue is settled and the air cleared for concerted action...
...dissolved in a hydrocarbon fluid in a 4-in. tube. Radiation from its unstable atoms makes the liquid give flashes of light. They are too faint for human eyes to see, but photomultiplier tubes pick them up. The whole system is immersed in liquid mercury. As a further safeguard, the counting apparatus is adjusted so that it ignores all flashes of light too weak or too strong to come from Carbon...