Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest satellite, Explorer III, was similar to Explorer I, fired Jan. 31, and identical to Explorer II, which miscarried and disappeared after its successful launching March 5. Explorer III, weighing 31 Ibs., carried a special tape recorder that would enable scientists to measure cosmic rays more efficiently (see SCIENCE). As it turned out. its orbit, coursing an ellipse from 110 miles at its perigee to 1,735 miles at apogee at a top speed of 18,850 m.p.h.. was less than Army scientists had hoped for-and as much as 700 miles inside the Navy's grapefruit-sized...
...designs left by Ammannati, notes left by the head mason. Under his direction, the Arno was dammed, and the river bottom was searched for fragments left after the explosion. Studying the shards, Gizdulich deduced that the ancient masons had used special chiseling and cutting implements now unknown. Gizdulich designed similar tools and had them made by hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly fitted and pieced out with new stone taken from the same Boboli Gardens quarry that Ammannati had employed. Architect Gizdulich grew so familiar with the ancient plans...
...large veins. Debbie's heart is opened." Then an injection of potassium citrate stopped the heart for 15 minutes; in throat-parching closeups, the hole inside Debbie's still, flaccid heart, too big for safe stitching, was repaired with a plastic patch made from stuff similar to kitchen sponges. Two weeks later Debbie went home-with every likelihood of a normal life expectancy...
...week Alcan revealed that it began granting a 2% "loyalty" discount to British buyers three months ago, has asked the British Board of Trade to impose an anti-dumping duty on Red imports. Just as alarmed by heavy imports of cheaper Russian ferroalloys, Union Carbide, Ltd. is pondering a similar bid to the board...
...Some unvaccinated oldsters are immune to Asian flu-if they had flu in the pandemic of 1889-91. Antibodies still found in their blood show that the old and new viruses were antigenically similar...