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...styles take as long as four hours to sculpt, women often find it necessary to have them done the day before an important event and then sleep sitting up all night to preserve them. The coiffures are constructed to last three or four weeks; when cut open, they often emit a noxious effluvium and occasionally a living creature...
Traditional metal-detecting devices sometimes fail to spot modern bombs, which often have nonmetallic, acid-filled starters. The new devices that experts are developing include X-ray detectors that can more accurately locate a bomb without seeing it, an electronic sniffer that picks up the vapors emitted by dynamite, and a device for creating an electronic field that could cause certain explosives to emit an identifiable beep. On less exotic levels, officials are considering placing all lockers in a secured area, as Los Angeles did after a 1974 blast killed three people, or banning them altogether, as London has done...
...furnace, prying the logs apart a bit or rotating them to expose the hot, charred surface in order to get more heat into the room." He was creating, in effect, something similar to what physicists call a "black body," a furnace-like cavity with walls that absorb and then emit practically all the heat and other radiation that reaches them; only a fraction of the radiation escapes through a small hole in one of the walls...
...diary reveals a striking view of sex, little discussed in his formal writings. A characteristically dense entry of Feb. 8, 1916 stated: "Just as speech was born by the unexpected use of organs being bent to emit articulated sounds-but originally formed for different ends-so, perhaps the love-liaison with God on which the mystical body's cohesion rests, is the fortuitous, secondary use of a passion-subjected temperament." Put more directly in another passage, this meant that "for a man, God must be loved through woman by using...
...anatomically structured to emphasize humor, emotional self-control and abstract thought. Much of their brain is also designed to receive an almost unimaginably rich flow of perceptions. Modern technology gives a bare hint of what cetaceans might "think." Most communicate in part with a superior sort of sonar. They emit "clicks" and "pings," then read the echoes in three dimensions. "One dolphin scanning another," explains John Sutphen, a doctor at Connecticut's Lawrence Hospital, "does not just receive an echo from the other's skin but from his interior body as well...