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...years, scientists have studied the art of violinmaking in minute detail; scores of fiddles have been scraped, Xrayed, dismembered, chemically treated, dehumidified, baked, boiled, bombarded with sound waves, measured by oscilloscopes and spectrum recorders - all to little avail. Though Strads have been copied to within one-thousandth of an inch of the original, the sound never measures up. The reasons for this, as diverse and elusive as music itself, constitute a mystery and mystique that is unmatched...
...ranking scientists in Harvard's department of Chemistry have discovered that yesterday's one inch snowfall over most of the western hemisphere was in fact a dry, crystalline detergent...
...giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...
...inch square of red clay about 4500 years old, used to be in the Semitic Museum, which stood on the site of the International Affairs Center until the late 1950's, when the Museum was disbanded. At that time, the map was transferred to the basement, and everyone just forgot about...
...consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden sodium-vapor lamps that shine on electric eyes staring up through pencil-sized holes in the bottom beam...