Word: bins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More satisfactory results are being obtained by muscle transposition. In an operation developed by Dr. Leonard Ru bin of Hempstead, N.Y., the temporalis muscle, which runs from the temple to the jawbone, is split into three sections. These are then separated and connected to the patient's eye, mouth and cheek. After considerable practice before a mirror, a patient can learn to use the transposed muscle to control winking or smiling. The operation returns a near-normal appearance to the face at rest...
Under Said Bin Taimur, the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, which lies on the southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, remained one of the most stagnant societies on earth. The 60-year-old Sultan decreed long ago that his 600,000 subjects should not own automobiles or attend cinemas. In the capital, Muscat, the city gates are closed at sundown, when the cannon booms. People must carry lanterns at night; flashlights are banned as too blinding...
...their dining room, and they control most of the hiring and firing. Strohbach confers with the workers' council two or three times a day, but he retains the right to decide what products are made and how. The state may be his partner, but he insists: "Ich bin der Boss...
...past the potash mines of Alsace, through the industrial Ruhr Valley to the North Sea. Known as "Europe's sewer," the river is so toxic that even hardy eels have difficulty surviving. The Dutch, who live at the river's mouth, have a stoic slogan: "Holland is the rubbish bin of the world." In Sweden, when black snow fell on the province of Sma-land, authorities suspected that thick soot had wafted from across...