Word: corkscrews
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Break out your corkscrew pocket knives, Big Green faithful. Your men’s hoops team is the new Switzerland of the Ivy League. And with the rest of the league moving up relative to Dartmouth, the Big Green might want to look into watch manufacturing as well, because it appears they’ll be relegated to such status for the immediate future...
...corkscrew The most direct approach to fighting stroke is to break up the blood clot that is causing it; the risk is that the clot will break into smaller particles that then lodge deeper in the brain. At the meeting last week, researchers reported that a tiny corkscrew device, housed in a thin catheter, can snag clots and pull them out without disrupting them--stopping the stroke damage almost instantly. The mechanical embolus removal in cerebral ischemia (MERCI) system restored blood flow in 54% of patients as long as eight hours after initial stroke symptoms appeared...
...fine bottle of Pinot Grigio that you suddenly realize is--gasp!--room temperature. No problem. Just add ice and water to your Cooper Cooler ($80), plug it in, and in about six minutes the wine will be perfectly chilled. Now, to open the bottle, grab the battery-powered corkscrew from Select Brands ($25; a rechargeable version is available for $50), press a button, and with almost no effort on your part, the cork comes free. A productivity gain that everyone can applaud...
...physical chemist, the man who had literally written the book on chemical bonds. A few months before Watson arrived, in fact, Pauling embarrassed the Cavendish by winning the race to figure out the structure of keratin, the protein that makes up hair and fingernails. (It was a long, complex corkscrew of atoms known as the alpha-helix.) While he did rely on X-ray crystallographs for hints to what was going on at the molecular level, Pauling depended more heavily on scaled-up models he built by hand, using his deep knowledge of the ways atoms can bond together. Cavendish...
Some of the most practical gizmos were the simplest. Cordless was big. In addition to the vacuum cleaner, Maytag, Panasonic and Euro-Pro were all hawking cordless clothes irons. At $25, Select Brand's battery-powered corkscrew was both cheap and useful, taking only seconds to uncork a bottle of Chardonnay in our tests...