Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, the principal obstacle in the way of practical electric-powered highway vehicles has been the power supply. Familiar lead-acid storage batteries, while adequate as a supplemental source of electricity in conventional cars, suffer from what engineers call a "low energy density"; they need frequent recharging and deliver relatively little energy for their size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel...
...written five previous cover stories in the Behavior section. Senior Editor Ruth Brine, who edited this week's article, brought a personal perspective to the assignment; one of her sons is a teen-ager and another son and daughter recently were. "Both teenagers and their parents suffer their share of uncertainties in this new atmosphere," says Brine. "We can't presume to tell any of them what they should or shouldn't do. Rather we tried to report on what people are doing, why, and what some of the consequences...
District of Columbia reformatory, the vaccine, which is administered by nasal spray rather than injection, proved highly effective. Seventeen of 28 prisoners not given the vaccine came down with the flu after intentional exposure. All 17 others who were vaccinated remained free of the ailment. Nor did the men suffer any ill effects from the vaccine itself. Current flu vaccines often produce minor symptoms of the disease such as dizziness, headaches, low fever and slight nausea...
This stylish thriller is yet another stop on the Greene-Ambler-Deighton-LeCarre circuit. In his first novel, Dublin-born Joseph Hone follows the impeccable existentialist formula in which the spy is the victim, doomed to suffer betrayals and failures as remote as the stars from his control...
...again approaching a truly great art and that soon we shall give expression to our time through a monumental contemporary style." He was right-the irony being that this promise was not fulfilled by his own sculpture. There is scarcely one of his works that does not suffer in some measure from the tension between Lehmbruck's large desires and his extreme sensitivity, which resulted in a frequent indecision about surface modeling as well as a troublesome theatricality of facial expression and gesture. It is as though the psychological burden of being a 20th century man militated against...