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...expedition will carry out three major experiments, all involving the outer corona. This is a tenuous gas, thinner than any man-made vacuum, and heated by two million degrees centigrade. Although the inner part of the corona can be seen through special narrow band filters without an eclipse, a total solar eclipse is essential to study the whole structure, including the outer portion, of the corona...
...Unlike stimulants or tranquilizers, butazolidin does not change the energy level of the horse, but rather makes the animal extremely insensitive to any pain. Though a thoroughbred weighs close to 1000 pounds and runs faster than thirty- five miles-an-hour, he has lower legs that are thinner than your ankles. Most thoroughbreds have sore legs. With butazolidin or some other pain-killer a horse cannot feel anything in his leg. Unable to feel that his unsound leg is about to break, he will run until his leg gives way and he falls. Every-time a horse goes lame...
...asked if I'd like to sleep with a man for some money. He was looking for someone like me-I was a size 7 then, a lot thinner, and it would be an easy way to pick up some easy extra cash. She knew I could...
...sheep's body weight produced just the right result. The drug affected the wool fiber only where it is produced, in follicles below the surface of the skin, and acted for about 24 hours before being dissipated by the body. During this period, cell growth was retarded, producing thinner than normal segments on each fiber before normal growth resumed. Six or seven days later, when these weakened segments of fiber finally poked their way above the skin, they could be broken easily with a slight pull...
...excellent effect with his campaign organization. Humphrey has pointed out a number of times that the Bible is unconcerned with efficiency but deeply involved with compassion. On the day-to-day operating level, Humphrey could be expected to concern himself with more trivia than Nixon, to spread himself thinner, to put up with more intramural disorder...