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...used to preserve water-soluble drugs and blood plasma. But Meryman was first to apply it to taxidermy, and he has accumulated abundant data on the drying time of various animals. Small insects take only 24 hours to freeze-dry. A garter snake needs eight days, and a red squirrel requires four to six weeks in the vacuum chamber. From the scientist's point of view, freeze-drying has one big advantage over standard commercial taxidermy: the animals' internal organs remain intact, can be reconstituted for study or dissection simply by restoring their water...
...Belka (Squirrel)-rats, mice and flies, as well as land and water plants, fungi and seeds. U.S. engineers estimated that the multi-stage rocket that boosted this bizarre collection into space must have had a first-stage thrust of at least 800,000 lbs. -twice as much thrust as the most powerful U.S. missile possesses...
...second day. "We need some kind of food," he wrote on the third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...
...secretary would return, her shorthand notebook and pencil at the ready. From time to time she handed Johnson a convenient extension telephone, with an urgent call from Washington or some other distant spot. Without a telephone at arm's reach, Senator Johnson is as wretched as a squirrel without a tree...
Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...