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Yesterday once more: 75 years of Current Science.

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February 14-18, 1938--Current Science reported that a panel of experts from 15 industrial nations finally decided exactly how long an inch should be. Prior to the decision, an inch in the United States was longer than an inch in Great Britain. The international panel declared that 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters.

May 2-6, 1938--A professor of medicine named Maud Slye announced that she had raised a group of Methuselah mice in her laboratory at the University of Chicago. Methuselah was a biblical character who lived to age 969. For her experiment, Slye chose mice whose…

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