Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That, actually, is the story line. This creature's name is Air Force Project 709. Her nickname is "Rhoda." She is made of transistors, computers, poly ethylene and a generator. Within her breasts are solar batteries. She is the central figure and continuous joke in CBS's new situation comedy, My Living Doll. Created for experimental purposes by aerospace scientists, she is for the moment on loan to a psychiatrist (Bob Cummings), who keeps her in his apartment. She will do anything he tells her to do, and when she doesn't under stand him, she says...
Actually, snow blindness is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...
Other medal winners this year include a leader in experimental population genetics study, a bridge designer, a developer of aeronautic and astronautic instruments, a 1934 Nobel Prize winner who pioneered studies of the earth and solar system, and researchers in mathematics, psychology, and the chemical processes of the genetic code...
Blocked by the shroud, the spacecraft's solar panels did not open; they could not recharge the spacecraft's batteries, which soon went dead...
...interrupted a story his mother was reading to him. "Why don't you ever let me read to you?" asked Mike, and was allowed to do just that. When Mike's kindergarten teacher asked the class to draw a picture on any subject, he mapped the solar system and labeled all the planets correctly...