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...suffer from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), forcing me to live in a sterile laminar airflow quarantine. Although that would be pretty awful...
Perfect Brew Inventor: Matthew Younkle, Laminar Technologies Availability: Businesses can lease it for $99 a year per tap; keg-cooler version costs $209, kegerator, $179 To Learn More: turbotap.com Nothing kills happy hour like a big head. Now bartenders and concessionaires pulling pints can rely on TurboTap to keep things neat. The device, a stainless-steel spout that attaches to an existing tap, changes the flow of the beer so that it hits the bottom just so, eliminating the need to tilt the glass or slow down the pour. (The tail end, shaped like a Hershey's Kiss, feathers...
Beneath commonplace Laminar Flow Hoods and in hospital examination rooms. Hirsch, an associate professor of medicine, is diligently directing a two-pronged quest for an AIDS remedy. "The most important questions from a clinician's point of view are how can you treat it and how can you prevent it," Hirsch says, and that is exactly what he is trying to do. By developing drugs to knock out the AIDS virus, and by determining why some infected patients die while others live, he hopes to move toward a solution to a problem that has galvanized the nation...
Teddy's living quarters-one of eight "laminar air flow rooms" set up by the NCI for infection-prone patients -is kept free of potentially harmful viruses and bacteria by a system that forces clean air into the room through filters and out through an open doorway; germs cannot make their way past the outward-flowing air. Only people dressed in specially designed sterile outfits are allowed into the room...
Northrop engineers, who have run thousands of hours of wind-tunnel tests, say that once the suction is started, there is smooth, laminar flow over both top and bottom of their new wing. Up to 80% of the friction drag is eliminated-and this figure includes compensation for the drag caused by the nacelles and for the power needed to run the turbines. With drag so drastically reduced, an airplane uses much less fuel, thus can fly farther or carry more payload. The null will not have its first flight tests until next month, but Northrop is already making...