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...business activity is the level of company inventories. As sales slump during a recession and stockpiles of unsold goods swell, businessmen begin dumping their inventories and cutting back on orders from suppliers. In the process, layoffs surge throughout industry, and inventories grow skimpy. Then, when sales-hungry businessmen detect the first signs of an improving economy, they begin to rehire workers and restock warehouses. The level of inventories, thus, is usually a telltale signal of a recession or recovery...
...detect a fugitive monopole, Cabrera used a kind of magnetic mousetrap, which was connected to a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). He turned a coil of niobium, a platinum-gray metallic element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera...
...only change from the previous novel that I can detect in The Patriot Game is a slight mellowing--exemplified in the protagonist. Pete Riordan, a tough (natch) federal agent who's trying to figure out what's going on In Eddie Coyle and Rat on Fire, the good guys don't fight the bad guys as much as the stupid and evil guys fight the stupider and eviler Riordan, however, is a hero-- a Vietnam vet with a bum leg and cynical pride in truth, justice and the American way Heart-warming it certainly ain't in Higginsland, Bambi would...
Waldman-a writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
...recent medical advances, however, should lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the Women's Hospital in Houston, the method may provide unpleasant information, but, says Dr. H. William Porterfield, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, "at least parents have the opportunity to plan for what can and should be done in an atmosphere of reasonable calm...