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...open border town of Tijuana attracts hundreds of pleasure-bent college students each spring. One band of California youngsters, 300 strong, had more to show for their Mexican trip this year than hangovers or tourist trinkets. They spent Easter vacations in Tijuana's forlorn slum district, building an X-ray clinic, a food and drug warehouse, a free-milk bar for youngsters and a 16-crib hospital for infants...
Practical Chore. The chemists used every kind of modern apparatus as soon as it became available, but progress was slow. Then some of them turned to X-ray diffractions and called on an IBM 7090 computer to interpret their results. Finally, they found the long-sought formula which is unlike that of any other known poison. Then a group of chemists at Stanford University led by Professor Harry S. Mosher found the same poison in egg clusters of California newts. Both U.S. and Japanese chemists are now trying to figure out why such distantly related animals as fish and newts...
...tiny radiation source is cranked 6 ft. into the shaft. A strip of industrial X-ray film wound around the engine is bombarded by the gamma rays streaming out from the isotope. The result is a detailed X-ray photograph of the hundreds of tough-to-get-at rotor blades that suck air into the engine, compress it and feed it to the combustion chambers...
...Leap rate of 5 billion). Red China now manufactures rolled-steel railroad wheels, X-ray machines, transistor radios, computers...
...Sudan, she spent her early school holidays in digs in the Near East. But soon after she entered Oxford's Somerville College in 1928, she got caught up in the exciting mysteries of chemistry. By her second year, she was already concentrating on the intricacies of X-ray analysis of large, complicated molecules-the work that won her a Nobel award...