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...electron microscope is man's sharpest artificial eye, but it can examine only dead, dry objects. The electron stream that it uses instead of light requires a high vacuum, so no water or water vapor can remain in the instrument. The usual method of preparing microorganisms or viruses for electron microscopy is to dry them at ordinary temperatures before putting them in the instrument...
...thanks to cooperation between cancer experts and a geologist, Manhattan's Francis Delafield Hospital has a better method. A rubber bag is half-filled with small plastic "pebbles" and molded around the part of the body to be immobilized. Then the air is withdrawn from the bag. The vacuum "freezes" the plastic pebbles into a solid mass which holds the patient like big, strong hands. After the treatment, air is let into the bag and the cast becomes flabby again. It can be used over & over...
...safe and handsome "holdsters"; his cut of the knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps as well. To keep the steam in pressure cooker sales, Keating reheated them with a cooker big enough to sterilize baby's bottles...
...Times's readers were not alone in worrying about the schools, or in resenting the religious vacuum the schools had created. In a solemn plea, the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales noted the "urgent need," asked that all denominations join in a common drive to restore religion to education. Indeed, added Winston Churchill on the floor of the House of Commons, "religion has been the rock in the life and character of the British people . . . This fundamental element must never be taken from our schools...
...prefer to sit on their hands. The question, however one answers it, concerns a highly private matter, one's philosophy of life, and there are almost as many answers as there are citizens. Why, on such an issue, should the state decide for each individual that a spiritual vacuum actually does exist, that there is only one thing that can fill it, and that religion is that one thing? Each individual must decide these questions for himself, unless he would rather have others do his thinking for him, and the state must studiously avoid taking sides. The place for pressure...