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...head at close range after he boarded a London subway train on the morning of July 22, 2005. De Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, lived in an apartment block adjacent to a would-be terrorist who, the day before, had botched an effort to blow himself up on the London Tube. On July 22, as police continued their surveillance of the suspect's housing block, de Menezes left his apartment for work and unknowingly stepped into the middle of the manhunt. Thirty-four minutes later he was dead...
...about recognizing it, because progress can sprint right past our ability to process it. Blood transfusions were considered creepy before World War II. Transplant a heart? That's not just a pump, critics said; it's the seat of your soul. You hardly ever hear the chilly term test-tube baby anymore, because what was once odd and unnatural is now a routine salvation to millions of childless couples...
...received the 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine with two of his Harvard colleagues—John P. Enders, Weller’s former professor at the Medical School, and Frederick C. Robbins—for their research on polio. The researchers reported successfully cultivating poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube for the first time in 1949, using tissue taken from a monkey. (Enders died in 1985, Robbins...
...most famous trick at Athens was by a couple of medal winners, who had plastic bags filled other people's clean urine inserted into the rectum, and a plastic tube that was fixed and hung beneath the penis. So when the athletes gave urine tests, the urine did not come from the body, but instead from this plastic outlet. People did this for years and years - and still do. It was known about. Women would insert bags into their vaginas. Then in Athens, when some athletes were asked for a bit more urine to analyze in future years, the system...
...there are some stumbling blocks. The men who tested the spray-on condom had a few hesitations, Krause says. Some were "a little bit afraid to use the tube" and would only try it on their fingers. Others worried that the mechanism, which hisses as it sprays, might ruin the mood...