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...Reduced speed limits, cooler homes and less driving are a few effects that Americans are feeling. Most people, however, are responding slowly to the newly imposed restrictions of their everyday life. With a little patience and a lot of humor, the American public should be able to find a lighter and better side to the darkness presented by the energy shortage...
...lighter moment, Leontief compared his Nobel Prize-winning input-output analysis to a cooking recipe: "You add some ingredients, and then you figure out how the whole thing hangs together...
...cars, trucks and vans, sometimes stowing away in cardboard boxes or disappearing behind loads of watermelons and sacks of potatoes. One smuggler tucked his stowaways in his trunk, and supplied them with the needed air circulation by connecting fans in the trunk to the car's cigarette-lighter outlet...
Similarly, Israeli troops have used their American Patton and British Centurion tanks more effectively than the Arabs have their lighter Russian-made T-54/55s. Neither side has had much opportunity to test how effectively they use the surface-to-air missiles protecting their base areas and cities. But by sinking four of Syria's Soviet-built Komar missile boats off Latakia on Saturday, the Israeli navy has shown how skillfully it has mastered the made-in-Israel radar-guided Gabriel missiles. Most Western military analysts expect the Israeli forces to defeat the combined Arab forces. But if Israel...
...would test his jelled compounds by burning them inside a wood frame, and then measuring the weight of the frame after the incendiary had burned out. The lighter the wood was, the more effective the jell...