Word: strontium
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...from being welcomed as harbingers of Utopia, now seem too often to be threats. Fears that genetic tinkering might produce a Doomsday Bug, for example, bother many Americans, along with dread that the SST's sonic booms may add horrid racket to the hazards (auto fumes, fluorocarbons, strontium 90) that already burden...
...sheer will power (psychokinesis). He had electrodes implanted in the brains of rats in a zone where stimulation gave the animals intense pleasure. The stimuli were delivered at random intervals by a computer that in turn was keyed to the decay of atoms in a sample of radioactive strontium 90. Without any outside influence, the system would stimulate the rats' pleasure zones 50% of the time. If the rats could anticipate the computer by E.S.P. or influence the decay of the radioactive source by psychokinesis, their pleasure score would exceed...
Panelist Barry Commoner, professor of plant physiology at Washington University and chairman of the Committee on Alteration of the Environment, said, "You're the first generation in the history of man to carry DDT in your fat and Strontium 90 in your bones...
Researcher Cade could not resist the temptation, as he puts it, of plunging his hand again into the same lucky dip. He tried the salts of other metals closely related to lithium, and drew blanks. Then he turned to strontium, which competes with calcium in many vital biochemical processes and is some how involved in the body's handling of another trace element, magnesium. Again Cade picked the carbonate form as the least likely to upset the stomach. He recently told colleagues that he has tried it on himself and noted "a distinct tranquilizing effect," though he considers himself...
...longer an unknown psychiatrist, Dr. Cade is in the U.S. this week to speak in Baltimore at a Taylor Manor Hospital symposium on discoveries in biological psychiatry. There he will suggest that other psychiatrists investigate strontium carbonate, to establish whether in this, as in lithium carbonate, he has found a common chemical to be a useful drug...