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The flash of the Hiroshima bomb was so intense that it discolored concrete and sealed the surface of granite, leaving in many places prints of the shadows cast by the light of the explosion. By triangulating these shadows with the objects that had cast them, Japanese scientists were able to pinpoint the exact center of the blast. Some of the shadows were of people.

Today’s nuclear warheads are smaller and more powerful than ever before, in order to maximize the efficiency of the delivery system. At the outset of the Manhattan Project, Albert Einstein was one of the scientists who forecast that an A-Bomb would have to be so large and heavy that it would need a ship to deliver it to its target.

The stomach empties itself in about four hours. The food, in various states of digestion, is then carried forward by the intestinal peristalsis, which is much like the constrictive movement of the stomach. It is carried forward at a rate allowing time for the intermixture of intestinal, pancreatic, and liver juices, for the conversion of food into assimilable form, and for absorption, through the intestinal walls, into the blood. Finally, through the ileo-ca2cal valve, it reaches the large intestine, where absorption, except for water, largely ceases and the waste products are agglutinated with the mucous, bacteria, and epithelial debris from the entire intestinal tract in the form of faeces, a stool or mould of which is evacuated from the body by the act of defecation once, according to the immutable standard of modern civilization, in every twenty-four hours.

ONE-DISH MEAL CASSEROLE
1 lb. hamburger
1 tbsp, butter
2 c. sliced raw potatoes
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 c. sliced carrots
1/2 c. uncooked rice
1/4 c. chopped green pepper (opt.)
2 c. tomatoes
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 c. hot water

Brown hamburger in butter. Place a layer of meat in 2-quart casserole. Top with a layer of each vegetable and rice. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour hot water over all. Cover. Bake at 325 degrees for 2 hours. Add more water if needed. Yield: 6-8 servings.

Absorption of Gases. - In physics, the property which all liquids possess in greater or less degree of taking a certain quantity of gas into chemical combination with themselves. Heat is given off during this process of absorption, and, should it afterwards be desired to separate the gases, an equivalent amount of heat to that given off, must be applied to the liquid. This principle is the foundation of the ammonia absorption process of refrigeration as water at 32° F. can absorb over one thousand times its volume of ammonia gas.

MISSOURI HASH
2 Large  onions, sliced
2 green peppers, chopped
3 tbsp. shortening
1 lb. hamburger
2 c. canned tomatoes, mashed 1/2 c. rice
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Cook onions and green peppers slowly in shortening until onions are yellow. Add hamburger; saute until mixture falls apart. Add tomatoes, rice and seasonings. Arrange in large casserole; cover. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes or until done. Yield: 8 servings.

The digestive system may be conceived in its simplest form as a muscular tube into which glands all along its course pour secretions. Some of these glands are embedded in the wall of the tube ; some, such as the pancreas and the liver, are so large that they lie outside and discharge their secretion through a duct which empties into the digestive canal. The muscular action of the walls of the canal pushes the food ever onward.