Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incredible that in this age, people can believe, as the Scientologists do, that emotional and physical ailments can be cured with two tin cans wired to a galvanometer. Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard was a good science-fiction writer. He should have remained in that field. His worldwide followers should turn in their tin cans for recycling...
...used Landsat to reroute segments of their trans-Amazon highway around swamps and other obstacles. Anyone can purchase the photographs. Even the U.S.S.R. and China have bought them, sometimes of each other's terrain. Indeed, the program has been so successful in spotting resources-copper deposits in Pakistan, tin in Bolivia-that some nations have condemned the orbital photography as economic spying...
...abroad, was based on ideas in a bestseller titled Dianetics that Hubbard wrote in 1950. The aim of dianetics is to rid a person of restricting engrams. The technique involves the use of an "E-meter," which was patented by Hubbard. To use the "meter, a person holds a tin can in each hand while a galvanometer wired to the cans ostensibly indicates emotional stress. While the subject is "on the cans," a Scientologist "auditor" quizzes him to uncover any embarrassing or painful experiences in his past. All such traumas are recorded. Defectors have claimed that church members are often...
...last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie, and the blacks had to sit in the back on benches with a little tin roof overhead in case it rained. Memories like that make you want to do something for Dr. King...
...They are untouchables who live in what amounts to perpetual serfdom, bequeathing their trade and squalor to succeeding generations. The garbage pickers stay alive by sorting through the refuse that is hauled out from the city in creaking donkey carts. The ragged men and women save the bottles and tin cans to be sold, and feed the slop to the pigs who live with them. Infant mortality in the community is an appalling...