Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Appleton, who runs the Nashville Banner's Help Desk column, is most concerned about missing persons. He once helped an old Eskimo woman in Alaska trace her son and daughter to Nashville two decades after the mother found herself helpless and separated from her family following an accident that left her a double amputee living on welfare. Not all such stories end happily. One holiday season Appleton successfully traced an aging Nashville woman's long-strayed son to North Carolina, but the son did not want to see his mother. "She took it poorly," Appleton says sadly...
...best country in the world," and 47% (precisely the same figure as in 1924) said, "It is entirely the fault of a man himself if he does not succeed." Though today's students are more tolerant, say the researchers: "We have not been able to find any trace of the disintegration of traditional social values described by observers who rely on their own intuitions...
...minute and should not be more than 20 feet deep." He takes a few more steps, repeating the formula. And, lo, the rods swing 180° apart, forming a single line at right angles to his line of march. "It's here, all right," he announces without a trace of surprise. "Right under us there is a vein of free-flowing water...
...polyester mesh vest, developed by Dr. Stanley Dudrick and his team at the University of Texas, has two breast pockets that hold plastic bags filled with Jason's food-a solution of amino acids, water, sugar, salt, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins and trace elements. A battery-powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava...
Schmidt and Avery, certain that the Haya steelmaking process was very old, set out to trace its origins. What they found was beyond even their expectations. Last year, in excavations on the western shore of Lake Victoria, they discovered the remnants of 13 furnaces nearly identical in design to the one the Haya had built. Using radioactive-carbon dating processes on the charcoal, they found that these furnaces were between 1,500 and 2,000 years old, which proved that the sophisticated steelmaking techniques demonstrated by the contemporary Haya were indeed practiced by their ancestors. This discovery, the scientists conclude...