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...When Frank Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking...
...Harvard-affiliated researchers have discovered the function of a unique protein which allows sperm to blast through the tough outer layer of an unfertilized egg and which may be the target of a future 100 percent effective contraceptive...
According to Kirichock, data on sperm physiology has long suggested that ion channels located on the sperm’s plasma membrane played a key role in determining sperm motility and sperm-egg interactions, and scientists have been unsuccessfully trying to measure the activity of those ion channels since...
MICROWAVE OVEN In 1946 Percy Spencer, a Raytheon Corp. self-taught engineer studying radars, tested a vacuum tube called a magnetron, and something unusual happened: a candy bar in his pocket melted. The intrigued scientist placed popcorn kernels near the tube and then an egg, watching in amazement as the kernels popped and the yolk splattered. Spencer realized that exposure to low-density microwave energy could cook food quickly, and he created the first commercial microwave a year later. Smaller models followed, revolutionizing a certain kind of cooking...
...strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides.”Just exactly what the equivocator’s answer has to do with the actual question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader...