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The Economist magazine reported in January on one of Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary’s success stories about government research scientists doing work for civilian businesses: Argonne National Laboratory helping McDonald’s find a way to speed up french frying. A team headed by physicist Tuncer Kuzay, who interrupted his work on photons, placed sensors inside the frozen fries, then designed special frying baskets to deal with the effect of steam created by melting ice crystals and to cut 30 to 40 seconds off the frying time of each batch.
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According to two officials of Kentucky Baptist organizations, a recent trend to move baptisms indoors was caused primarily by the increasing pollution of creeks and rivers. Said Pastor Dick Verhoose, “You’ve got dead animals, you’ve got open sewers.” Said Reverend James Kelly Caudill, “There’s [no nearby river] fit to baptize a dog in, to be honest with you.”
In a two-week period beginning in late April a male logger in Western Kentucky working on a truck engine and a female employee cleaning a commercial blender in Los Angeles had their scalps torn completely from their heads, from ear to ear, from eyebrows to the back of the neck, but survived without being obviously disfigured. The scalps were retrieved and reattached after microsurgery of 12 to 14 hours’ duration.
