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...Zervas, chief of neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, M.I.T. Physicist Eric R. Cosman, and colleagues at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital have now constructed a remarkable sensor that warns of pressure increases by means of radio telemetry. As the investigators explain in the Journal of Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch...
Helped along by the pneumatic drill offense of Cornell, the Harvard hockey team dug an even deeper hole for its waning playoff hopes with a 6-3 loss to the Big Red last night in Ithaca, New York...
...correct temperature for each dish according to the recipe, starting at 7:15 p.m. Alice then joins a televised discussion of Byzantine art (which she has studied by computer). Later she wanders into the computer room where Al ("Laddy") Jr. has just learned from his headset that his drill in Latin verb conjugation was "groovy...
...Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet, coast-to-coast tour that took them to the most advanced U.S. drilling sites and laboratories. At every stop, the Chinese evidenced an insatiable curiosity, insisting upon inspecting the latest drill bits and prodding their hosts with endless, often highly technical questions...
...podium this young man is clearly an unceasing source of adrenaline for his singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were like a close-order drill in their precision. The delicate?and decidedly Mendelssohnian?woodwind passage accompanying Elisabeth's farewell was appropriately ethereal. The chorus, which has many roles in this opera (sirens, pilgrims, knights, ladies), sang like the virtuoso ensemble it is fast becoming under Levine and Chorus Master David Stivender...