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Filching trade secrets to keep up with the competition is a device as old as buying and selling, and just as international. Nowhere does it flourish more than in Japan. An estimated 10,000 commercial spies honeycomb Japanese industry; in Tokyo alone there are 380 detective agencies that specialize in stealing corporate secrets. Last week industrial espionage achieved a new pinnacle of respectability in Japan with the opening of the Institute for Industrial Protection, a school avowedly established to train spies and counterspies for Japanese corporations...
...moon, says Astronomer Cudaback, is probably covered by a thick porous layer that is as light and airy as finespun cotton candy. It is also possible, he says, that there is a foamy crust of crumbly, crackerjack-like material or a lunar honeycomb with cells intact and filled with gas. The moon got that way, he figures, because it has been bombarded with meteors for billions of years. Striking the moon's skin with enough energy to melt 100 times their own mass, the meteors liquefied rock or whatever else they hit, splashing gobs of molten material all over...
...anti-esthetic to become, now, much admired. Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), to advise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look of clean, high, colorful, modern business buildings...
...patient could be floated much more delicately than that. In the first place, the weight of the board must be figured with the patient's, so the less that has to be added the better. The instrument makers hit upon an oversized bedboard made of an aluminum honeycomb, which weighs only 7 Ibs. To float patient and bedboard, they chose an air bearing of a type originally designed for instruments in missiles...
Among scientific apiarists. Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich is widely icgarded as the know-all of the bee-alls. More than 20 years ago. Von Frisch discovered that bees communicate in a highly complex code by dancing on the honeycomb. A decade...