Article — From the October 1950 issue
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Article — From the October 1950 issue
By John Atlee Kouwenhoven (Editor), Charles Nordhoff
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Amount British Nuclear Fuels paid the British Scouts last year to add its logo to their scientist badge:

Roughly 80 percent of U.S. cocaine was thought to be contaminated with a drug that causes skin tissues to rot.

“My body was quite happy,” said ISS mission commander Chris Hadfield. “I learned to talk with a weightless tongue.”
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Nadia Shira Cohen.

