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...piece (Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Paganini, Handel, Brahms). "The more output and resource an instrument has," Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than the more fluid and poetic Strads, which are the first choice of Milstein, Oistrakh, Francescatti and Menuhin...
Diluted 35 Times. One way to cut costs by about 15% from the present $10,000 a year per patient, Engineer Lars Grimsrud told the artificial-organ enthusiasts, is to use a central, 150-gallon tank of purifying fluid instead of individual, 100-gallon tanks for each patient. In the central tank of the "monster," as the Seattle machine is called, the fluid is highly concentrated, and the machine dilutes it with as much as 35 times its own volume of water to get the right mixture for each patient. Patients still have personalized equipment at their bedsides: pumps...
...course requirements are flexible enough for students who want to apply mathematics to the geophysical sciences, linguistics, mathematical economics, fluid mechanics, or computer sciences, according to a Committee statement. The Committee hopes to couple this flexibility with unusually close counseling...
...also contained in the innermost third of the ear, and working in far more mysterious ways, is a labyrinth of three nonhearing organs. The best known is a set of three semicircular canals. Minute changes in the flow and pressure of the fluid in these canals send the brain such signals as "You're turning to the right." Together, the canals make up what is probably the most important single "organ of equilibrium." But there are others...
...Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University Medical School (Immunological investigations related to human disease). Morton W. Bloomfield, professor of English (Studies in the problems of medieval narrative, at the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris). George F. Carrier, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Analytical investigations of questions in fluid dynamics, at the University of Western Australia...