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Sub Hunting. A sonar operator needs a highly trained ear to sort out the sounds of the sea. Apart from a sub's noises, the sea is full of other sounds, a syncopated symphony of crackling shrimp, clucking sea robins and grunting whales; there is even the engine-like throb...
Computer Console. The big surprise for many is that so many prizewinning objects are both readily available and often cheap as well: a 40? polypropolene valve for home water heaters; Neal Small's cleanly domed $90 chrome lamp; and a $7.95 set of "Blockmobile" cubes that double as trees...
Fashions in academe may be a bit more durable than those of Paris couturiers, but, like hemlines, the popularity of disciplines rises and falls. Much in vogue at the moment, right up there with particle physics and computer technology, is the study of linguistics. Its new popularity, contends Princeton Linguist...
Test by Trials. By following the same procedure, highway police can get the speed of approaching cars. If the patrolman has measured and locked in the distance between two fixed points in advance, he can park unobtrusively off the road, clock the speed of motorists simply by turning the timer...
But even with the present model, VASCAR has been used with striking results. In North Carolina, where the state highway patrol began using it last December, the number of speeding arrests increased substantially, and as a consequence auto accident fatalities dropped sharply to 142 from 214 the previous December. The...