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...Stern. In schoolroom demonstrations, an electromagnetic force is produced by passing electric current through a wire or other conductor suspended in a magnetic field. The current generates a magnetic field around the wire that pushes against the field of the magnet. In an electric motor, current flowing through the armature reacts in the same way against a magnetic field generated by electromagnets. The resulting push, or torque, turns the rotor...
Breathtaking Elegance. Along with its amazing physical growth, Los Angeles has also grown mightily in other ways. As the golden city in a golden state, it has become the symbol of vitality, youth, growth and opportunity -a municipal magnet...
...this elegant occasion is Peter O'Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
Foreign companies are urgently interested and are investing at record rates. One magnet for capital is Western Australia, which has 15 billion tons of high-grade iron ore, about one-eighth of the world's known reserves. Great consortiums of companies, including the U.S.'s Kaiser Steel and American Metal Climax, have contracted to sell $3.5 billion worth of iron ore and pellets to Japanese steelmakers over the next 25 years. In the north, bauxite reserves amount to 3.5 billion tons, about half of global reserves, or enough to fill all the Western world's needs...
...Magnet for Teachers. This history and atmosphere has drawn to the school some of the most lively, creative and talented theologians and church historians currently teaching in the U.S. They include...