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...Elements. The next step was taken by Giaever in 1960. A former mechanical engineer who was working on a doctorate in physics, he showed that tunneling can also take place in superconductors, materials that lose all resistance to electrical currents when chilled close to absolute zero. In 1962 Josephson, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Cambridge, applied the mathematics of modern quantum physics to predict two significant effects that now bear his name: 1) that electrons can tunnel back and forth through an insulator separating adjacent superconductors even when there is no voltage present-an idea totally...
...hypothesis: the body is fooled in space. It feels good but, some doctors suggest, does not recognize its anemia. Another suspicion is that zero G alters the way the blood flows to the internal organs. This could result, for example, in reduced stimulation of the kidneys, which produce a hormone to trigger red blood cell manufacture...
...prime concern of the experimenters was the effect of weightlessness on the circulatory system, particularly the tendency of the heart to grow "lazy" in space. Thus after bedrest, which is intended to simulate zero gravity, the adaptability of the nurses' circulatory system was tested by placing a bag tightly around the lower body and pumping the air out. This created a partial vacuum, which tends to concentrate the blood in the lower part of the body and to create the effects of gravity on astronauts who have just returned to earth. The bed rest was also followed by placing...
...metaphor is not the meaning. What emerges subliminally from The Contractor is that life runs the inevitable course of the rising and setting of the sun, that it moves with deceptive torpor yet is shatteringly brief, and that the sum of all its tediously accumulated fractions is a melancholy zero...
...Although Zero Mostel used to quip that he banked his money in his art books filed under Monet, art is no joke to the comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened...