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...been experimenting with man-powered flight ever since the '40s. Two years ago, after Kremer offered his prize money, Wimpenny organized the Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club and designed Puffin. Spars were made from spruce. The plane's framework was covered with a plastic film one three-thousandth of an inch thick. As it took shape in a hangar, Puffin's fuselage grew to 20 ft., its wings spread out for 84 ft. Practicing in the cockpit, Wimpenny took the classic pose of a racing cyclist-body bent forward, hands on a low-mounted handle...
...medical examiners seek authorization to remove the pea-sized pituitary at autopsies on both adults and stillborn babies. The tiny glands are sent to one of three university laboratories. There, after five or six days of exquisitely delicate chemical processes, each gland yields about one twenty-five-thousandth of an ounce of HGH. Because of its scarcity, HGH is only available for research, not for sale...
...candidates for the 150 seats in Pakistan's new National Assembly campaigned on the bland platform of "identification with the ideology of Pakistan." They were not elected directly by the people but by an elite electorate consisting of 80.000 members of village and town councils-less than one-thousandth of the population-whom Ayub calls "persons of status in their communities." In the average constituency, six candidates vied for only 500 votes. While the electors, or basic democrats in Ayub parlance, are 80% literate (national average: 16%), a basic drawback of the system is that they include few intellectuals...
...Diamonds, which are the hard est things known to man, have been drilled before, but the process is difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon of diamond, which has the highest vaporizing temperature of any solid substance, laser light produces a blue puff of vapor that is close to 18,000° F., about twice the temperature of the sun's white...
...Tomiyasu and his colleagues have also learned how to make laser light carry information. Modulated in much the same manner as radio waves, its high frequencies can handle far more intelligence than any microwave beam. Each five-thousandth-of-a-second burst of light can theoretically be made to transmit coded information that would be the equivalent of 200,000 words...