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...illustration of a poem with the poem itself written into it--the planks of the bridge brusquely indicated, the calligraphy mingling with the broadly brushed leaves of water iris as if it too were part of the reed growth of the pond. And yet the whole image has an iron control within its spontaneity. This casual rightness of design cannot be feigned. It was rooted in the desire to understand nature by becoming part of nature. And Edo art, at its best, was all about that: the fusion of nature and culture, at a level of craft that...
When it comes to the iron in your diet, too much of a good thing can hurt you. Folks with a genetic condition called hemochromatosis absorb so much iron from their food that their body literally starts to rust from the inside out. More than 1 million Americans suffer from the disorder, although most of them don't know what they've got. Part of the reason is that hemochromatosis can masquerade as other diseases, like diabetes and arthritis. In addition, according to a series of articles in last week's Annals of Internal Medicine, most doctors still...
...because he wanted to do everything his way. By the late 1920s the company had become so vertically integrated that it was completely self-sufficient. Ford controlled rubber plantations in Brazil, a fleet of ships, a railroad, 16 coal mines, and thousands of acres of timberland and iron-ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota. All this was combined at the gigantic River Rouge plant, a sprawling city of a place where more than 100,000 men worked...
...there is a third view of Rozelle espoused by those who watched him work: he was an iron-willed tycoon who created the business model for all of professional sports. In addition, he figured out a way to make the NFL far more valuable than other sports, including the national pastime, baseball. Rozelle recognized that a sporting event was more than a game--it was a valuable piece of programming. Such media moguls as Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch have used that strategy to build entire networks. Rozelle, however, did them one better. In the long-winded discussions about...
...increase the demand for electricity, GE begins to produce electric appliances, including the toaster and a lightweight iron...