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...clear a path for commercial ship ping in the Arctic, conventional ice breakers ride up on the ice and break it downward. The technique has limitations. Forcing the ice down against water resistance reduces the efficiency of even the world's most powerful ice breakers. And broken chunks bob up astern, where they may damage cargo vessels that follow. Often the icebreakers are halted when pressure and friction from trapped floating chunks form a vise along their sides. Now a Canadian inventor, Scott Alexander, 55, has developed a new device that breaks ice upward. The new present seagoing...
...right, what exactly are the statistics? At Harvard a once downward trend in the numbers of those planning on business as a career and those attending graduate business school has been reversed of late. More students every year are going into business from the "better" colleges. Enrollment in business curricula in this country jumped 15 per cent in 1965. At the same time, the demands for these people are increasing rapidly, and unfilled demand creates the impression of dwindling supply...
...Broke. Valente's machine brings technology to the old, time-consuming Italian process. Whole coffee beans are electrically ground into a fine powder. Just enough for one cup is dropped into the filter of the machine where it is packed tight under pressure. Then boiling water is pumped downward through the grounds-and out flows the potent black brew...
...prices were freely flexible downward, international trade could expand with a fixed or even a decreasing supply of dollars; the expansion would merely have to be coupled with international deflation. But there is no reason to believe that international deflation is any more likely today than it was in the thirties. Trade will slacken instead...
...after an otherwise undetected occlusion, the patient may have a hand (usually only one) that is swollen, shiny, discolored and stiff. The stiffness comes from thickening of the fibrous layer just below the skin down the middle of the palm. It may pull the fingers together and sometimes also downward. Skin thickening and stiffness of this type may be the signs of a previous and hitherto-undetected coronary occlusion...