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The committee's idea for regulating cyclamate consumption was remarkably impractical. It recommended labeling foods containing cyclamates to indicate a maximum daily safe dose of 3.5 grams for adults and 1.5 grams for children. How the committee expected cyclamate users to read a fine-print label and calculate their intake...
You've read the transcripts; now see the movie. So goes the current parlor game, "Watergate, Soon to Be Made into a Major Motion Picture." Most casting choices tend to be inspired but impractical - President Nixon played by the shade of a Captain Queeg-ish Humphrey Bogart (they were...
The Class Day committee's decision not to invite humorist Woody Allen, the senior's third choice, after an invitation to Solzhenitsyn proved impractical and Stone turned down the seniors' offer, may have been wise. Though likely to be much in political agreement with Stone, Allen is not an outspoken...
The Electrogyro. Swiss designers pointed the way in the 1950s with a flywheel-powered bus called the Electrogyro, which operated in Europe and Africa for a number of years. To start up, the bus drew electricity from overhead wires to drive a combination motor-generator attached to a 3,300...
Hand-in-hand, the two changes threaten to annihilate the field goal. Attempts from beyond the 40-yard line will be impractical because of the increased distance. Coaches will be reluctant to try field goals from beyond the 30-yard line for fear of giving up good field position after...