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...Those solutions work well, but not quite well enough for today's high-power equipment. At Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, Physicist Richard L. Davis was busy trying to devise improvements. One day he let his mind wander and remembered an old mathematical parlor trick, the Möbius loop. * Math suddenly merged with electronics, and Davis had what he was searching for: the design of a noninductive Möbius resistor...
...fruit or not, the Japanese look in motorbikes is a hot new trend in U.S. transportation. They are buzzing all over the place-putt-putting up and down San Francisco's hills, snaking doctor, lawyer and merchant chief through the thromboid Los Angeles freeways, threading Chicago's Loop at rush hour, beating the parking problem on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. In suburbs, they bring home the bacon and buzz off to the neighbors. In hunting country they go camping and trail-riding. On campus they go on dates and even (when it rains) into dormitories. West Coast...
...doubleS loop of plastic, also equipped with a tail, developed by Dr. Jack Lippes of the University of Buffalo...
...from the Loop. Most likely to succeed Homer is powerfully built (6 ft 3 in.) Edmund F. Martin, 60, who became president three years ago, then advanced to vice chairman last August as Stewart S. Cort, 52, replaced him. Martin, who now earns $255,663 a year, joined Bethlehem in 1922 as a "looper," or management trainee, worked up from repairman's helper to chief of steelmaking operations...
...inhale deeply, then to exhale as hard as he could through a tube attached to the bellows of a spirometer. The motion of the bellows made an electronic dot on the screen of a nearby oscilloscope. A persistent lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than two colds a year...