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Bats are not alone in being intermediate in their metabolic personalities between the poikilotherms and homotherms [i.e., cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals]; as everyone knows, certain other mammals are also able to pass the winter in a torpid state...Bears do not leave their dens for months, and eat no food during that time, since their stores of fat are ample. For a long time little was known about the body temperature of hibernating bears--and for obvious reasons. But recently R. J. Hock has liad the curiosity and the courage to crawl with rectal thermometers into the dens...
Country Corn. When Rawlings took over, General Mills with its Wheaties and Cheerios ranked a distant third be hind Kellogg and Post in ready-to-eat cereals. Rawlings moved the company into "adult" cereals by introducing Country Corn Flakes (flavored with rice), Wheaties Bran with Raisin Flakes, and Total, a high-vitamin cereal. As a result, General Mills has now edged ahead of Post. Rawlings is also driving harder into convenience foods, where General Mills already has a strong bid with Betty Crocker mixes...
Miss Atkinson asked for more specific proposals in commenting on an HCUA suggestion for "greater variety in menus." She said that the dietician's office was always interested in hearing students' suggestions for improving the food, and that she would eat once a week in University dining halls in order to give students an opportunity to talk with...
...consolidating individual Marine and Army textile plants in Philadelphia, it saved $1,500,000 on overhead alone. - By deciding that servicemen can eat ordinary soda crackers instead of those meeting precise "military specifications," it saved $93,000 on each 1.5 million lbs. purchased...
...Richter also worked. Returning to his old graveyard-shift practice schedule, he would emerge from his studio alone in the middle of the night, then wander down to a restaurant in Les Halles and eat platters of sea urchins fresh from the shore. Such excursions seemed enriching, and by the night of his first concert, Richter was ready with more than just music. Hoping to cast a sympathetic spell for his program of Chopin and Schumann, Richter adorned the Salle Gaveau stage with flowers, tapestries and a battalion of immense candelabra-a naive little gesture that welcomed disaster by suggesting...