Show Science Topics More rice is grown in the world than wheat wheal And rice consumption is increasing for a number of reasons po points o out Dr Raymond E E. E Crist of th university of Florida Rice can be grown on poorer land than other crops as witness Cuba where soils previously thought too poor to cultivate have been producing rice in abundance for more than a decade Few pests and serious diseases bother both- both er rice Dr Crist says The grain is a concentrated form of inexpensive calories that keeps well and can easily be bc shipped Rice is the staff starr of life for lor more than a billion peo peer people pie many of course in the Orient But even in the US U.S. U.S.- U.S. not nol considered a rice eating country annual production has tripled in the last 20 years ears I to lo nearly three million tons PART TI TIME TIIE IE sports activity is a possibility for or youths with witha a chronic or acute physical condition says Dr Herbert E. E Griswold Jr of Portland Ore Dr Griswold urges team physicians physicians and coaches to lo seek seck out these boys and make them then into specialists such as pinch hitters hitters in baseball or punters and place kickers in football Life processes in individual cells are arc being slowed down b by university of Chicago scientists Like a slow-motion slow movie the technique permits permits' I a more pen pen- look at al the action of the vital processes CAVERNS arc proving to be econom economical cal vessels for the storage of gases So economical cal in fact that one large oil company dug the largest cave in history to be hewn out of solid granite But nut before propane propane pro pro- pane gas could be stored in the huge million 22 cubic loot foot un un- un receptacle in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania the atmosphere had to lo be made safe sale To remove explosion ex cx- I ex-I hazard pumped I in tons of carbon dioxide displacing enough of the air so that the propane could be safely safely safe safe- ly Iy injected This is believed to tobe tobe tobe be the worlds world's largest purging purging purging ing job A sterile atmosphere for surgery surgery sur sur- gery in the tropics is promised with a new balloon technique developed at al the Stanford University University University Uni Uni- School of Medicine A balloon of transparent plastic is fastened to lo the patients patient's skin with sterile glue The surgeon slips his arms through the sides of or the inflated bag to do the operation That unnerving ing spectacle small boy with violin soon may maybe maybe be less of a trial hial to lo captive audiences audiences au au- au- au i if a university of Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska project meets with success suc suc- cess Its It's the use of multiple ex e speed high-speed photographs to show Johnny exactly what happens when the instrument is played correctly Texts illustrated illus illus- b by the photos will help the school says though they wont won't turn lurn a tin ear to gold |