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...Romantics. In Nottingham, England, an all-male committee of the city council unanimously declared they would not use sodium lighting in the downtown area because it was unflattering to women's complexions...
...points out. But after allowance is made for individual differences, all patients follow certain general rules in their response to an operation (which is itself an injury). "After operation," says Dr. Moore, "the patient responds with hormones to heal his wound, to get new energy from fat, to conserve sodium for maintenance of blood pressure. The surgical patient is a chameleon adapting his responses to his back-ground,whether healthy or malnourished...
...flicked. The patient than gets hungry. He needs fat and carbohydrates from food to provide calories. He starts to take up nitrogen and rebuild muscle protein at the same prodigious rate as a one-year-old (suggesting that the growth hormone may have been switched on). The need for sodium goes down, while that for potassium goes up. Weeks or months later, the body replaces its store...
...football. It is made of "enriched uranium," i.e., uranium rich in fissionable 11-235. Around the core is a "fertile blanket" of 11-238, the spent metal that remains when U-235 is extracted from natural uranium to make atom bombs. Through both blanket and core circulates a sodium-potassium alloy that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. This coolant carries away the heat of the nuclear reaction. The fluid metal leaves the reactor at 660° F., and produces enough steam to generate 250 kw. of power...
...colleagues also took an intensive series of soda-solution baths, with striking results: "Quick disappearance of fat, especially on the stomach; the resolution of old scars, and a general increase in fitness." She did not specify whether she had used washing soda, baking soda or some other sodium compound, but the professor warned that the baths should be taken only under a doctor's direction: there was evidence that the treatment could affect the red-corpuscle count of the blood. To doubting Western biologists, the whole theory sounded like nonsense...