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...reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing should be tried. Backed by the Office of Naval Research, he organized a two-year experiment that covered the U.S.'s eastern seaboard. During the periods of January to April 1953 and December 1953 to April 1954, Dr. Spar and his assistants at New York University selected 37 "meteorological situations." Ten hours ahead of the time that they thought the clouds would be ripe for seeding, they telephoned Norfolk, Va. When zero hour...
Because the Easterns draw a wealth of talent from the whole seaboard area, however, the Elis may be prevented from taking the large number of second places which enabled them to edge the Crimson, 44 to 40, last Saturday...
...vastness of the gap between the envisioned tomorrow, and the actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains...
...scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon 14, like a soprano in a boiler factory, cannot be heard above...
Before World War II, this operation for sterilization was rare indeed, except under state auspices for sterilization of the insane. It has now become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around...