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Though many a New Englander will be outraged and incredulous to hear it, starting a meal with raw clams is risky. Clams contain a powerful enzyme that destroys much of the vitamin B-1 in other foods. (If you must eat clams, have them cooked -it destroys the enzyme-or compensate with extra B-1 in the rest of the meal...
...Yellow River. He knew the river's history: it had brought rich loam soil down from the Mongolian mountains to form the fertile flat Shantung peninsula; silt deposited in the river bottom raised the surface level along half its 2,500 mile course, until its banks could not contain it. Not even Oliver Todd knew how many humans the Yellow River, China's Sorrow, had killed...
...flight instruments which Sperry produces contain small, rapidly spinning flywheels called gyroscopes. Their useful characteristic is the obstinate way they keep steady while the airplane twists and turns around them. Most valuable service: they provide an artificial horizon; when a pilot cannot see the real horizon, he looks at the gyroscopic one, to see if he is on an even keel...
...troughlike basins (they slope gently, are graduated in three broad steps) floods chemically charged water, two or three times a day. In hydroponic farming the irrigating water is loaded with soluble salts of every specific chemical needed, and thus may be superior to any natural soil, for few soils contain all the essentials for vigorous plant growth...
...solve these problems, the structure envisioned by the Council would be administered by the heads of the legitimate organizations and would contain offices equipped with typewriters, telephones, and mimeograph machines. The central feature of the building--a theatre seating approximately 1000--could be used for films, plays, forums and similar functions. Music and dramatics, long relegated to musty, out-of-the-way auditoriums, would at last be heard and viewed at best advantage. Stress must be laid upon the fact that the building would serve graduate students as well as undergraduates; the Law School Forum and many organizations such...