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...effect, the layered look has simply extended downward. Legs are being gussied up-particularly to the advantage of the unbeautiful ones-with thigh-high socks and knee-high socks, cuffers (a.k.a. anklets) and the leg warmers that dancers have worn for years. One or two or all of these furbelows may be worn at the same time, and they can be used to make endless variations on a theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they...
...incidence toward the Gulf states and the tropics. Since dogs are about equally popular in both the North and South of the U.S., some questioners of the Cook-Dowling research have asked how dogs can have anything to do with the human disease. Bowling's answer: In the warmer South, dogs are less often kept indoors as house pets, but are left to roam more freely outside than in the cooler North...
Nemiroff, an ardent scuba diver, began his research on a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after hearing reports of people who had survived long submersion without apparent ill effect. A study of some 60 near drownings convinced him that in warmer waters, the limit for submersion without death or brain damage probably was four minutes. But in waters below 21° C. (70° F.), the four-minute rule seemed to be suspended. Of 15 victims rescued after a minimum of four minutes from the chilly waters that abound in Michigan, Nemiroff found, two died of lung...
Groaning Buffets. The Cuban welcome could hardly have been warmer. There were frozen daiquiris at the airport and buffets groaning with fresh lobster, shrimp, glazed red snapper and other delicacies that ordinary Cubans seldom see. Premier Fidel Castro himself showed up to chat, joke and sign autographs for the businessmen...
Some studies at the center are much more mundane. Jack Eddy, a visiting scientist at the Center, has shown how the amount of radioactive carbon in tree rings can be related to sunspots. Increased solar activity leads to warmer climates, Eddy says, raising the radiocarbon content of the rings. Another group of astronomers, working with radio telescopes designed to detect water vapor in remote parts of our own galaxy, found they could also use the radio telescope to measure the amount of water vapor in the earth's atmosphere. The method proved cheaper and more accurate than previous techniques, like...