Word: scharf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Magnified 615 times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...
...Zaire-from the Belgian mineral firm Societe Generale des Minerals. Asmara Chemie had no previous record of buying uranium at all -let alone $3.7 million worth-but on March 29, 1968, Asmara signed a contract to buy 200 tons of uranium oxide. Today the founder of Asmara, Herbert G. Scharf, denies any knowledge of the deal, and one former employee of the firm says, "I assume that somebody must have used our name...
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ALPHONSE MUCHA by Jiri Mucha, Marina Henderson & Aaron Scharf. 136 pages. St. Martin's Press...
...food chain. When gulls eat fish, they also take in a concentrated dose of poison. As a result, they lay eggs with such thin shells that most do not hatch. "Gulls here produce .42 chicks per nest compared with 1.22 chicks per nest in less polluted areas," Scharf explains. He fears for the human population too. "The Government has linked DDT with cancer in laboratory experiments. We know that it has the same type of effect on mammals as on birds. Nature is flashing a danger signal...