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...orthopedic surgeon in Elgin, Ill. In the early 1960s he found that injections of papain, a simple papaya extract, dissolved the nuclei of discs between the vertebrae of rabbits. As a result, the discs shrank. If papain had the same effect on human slipped discs, he reasoned, they would shrink back into place...
...computer might never have advanced much beyond the bulky and fickle ENIAC, which was burdened with thousands of large vacuum tubes that consumed great amounts of power, generated tremendous quantities of heat, and frequently burned out. In an industry striving for miniaturization, the transistors, too, soon began to shrink. By 1960, engineers had devised photolithographic and other processes (see box) that enabled them to crowd many transistors as well as other electronic components onto a tiny silicon square...
...psychological, if not the intellectual mecca of America. New home remedies for family and personal problems appear weekly on the nation's bestseller lists, and everyone who's anyone in the public eye has a psychoanalyst in the closet. Behind every great man, it seems, is a great shrink...
...tight budget, with spending for fiscal 1979, which starts Oct. 1, held to $500.2 billion, roughly 8% more than this fiscal year. (The President stressed heavily that, adjusted for inflation, the increase would be only 2%.) The deficit is expected to shrink slightly, from $61.8 billion in fiscal 1978 to $60.6 billion. Though many businessmen grumble that spending and the deficit should have been reduced by $20 billion or more, the President did resist pleas for still higher expenditures. and McIntyre turned out to be something of a tiger at slashing spending requests...
Thus, like Alice in a concrete Wonderland, the squircle can grow or shrink to accommodate such varied attractions as the circus, opera, ice shows, rock concerts, religious rallies and national conventions...