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...asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five days. On the sixth day he took two ouarit beans. Soon after, he swears, he became unconscious, remained that...
...into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These two castes are sterile...
...paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing." Once a car partially sank in quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted digging sites with field glasses. Having discovered a fossil, the diggers used whisk brooms and needles to disengage the item from its matrix. Dr. Andrews was usually...
...worked 200 hours, against a model built by his friend David Dunleavy, 18. David's plane circled prettily, made a three-point landing. Charles's zoomed up, continued to climb, climb, climb. For an hour and a half Charles chased it across town until, a tiny speck in the sky, it vanished heavenward...
...Speck of Gas. Engineers long ago learned that metals contain absorbed gases. Recently they learned that in lubrication the oil soaks into metal, oozes out when the machine operates (TIME, June 13). How deep into the metal does a gas go, skin-deep or throughout? Dr. Abraham Lincoln Marshall proved?with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...