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1 in the Bible, one of the wildernesses through which the Israelites wandered when they left Egypt. It is not the same as Zin. 2 The town Pelusium, wh...
1903–96, American immunologist, b. Bradford, Mass., Ph.D. Harvard, 1930. He was associated with the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine from 193...
small device that resembles a credit card but contains an embedded microprocessor to store and process information. Magnetic-stripe cards, which store...
publicly administered system of national health care. The term is used to describe programs that range from government operation of medical facilities...
(l k´y r) (KEY) , 1836–1920, English astronomer, educated on the Continent. One of the first to make a spectroscopic examination of the sun and sta...
(p l s nyäk´) (KEY) , 1863–1935, French neoimpressionist painter. First influenced by Monet, he was later associated with Seurat in developing the...