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Some successes are built on old-fashioned ingenuity. One recent example is Ore-Ida Foods, which makes frozen potatoes, little known in Japan until the firm arrived a year ago. Ore-Ida, a division of H.J. Heinz, had conducted surveys that revealed that busy Japanese working women had a hunger for easily prepared frozen foods. The company also showed a willingness to change its ingredients in order to please its new customers. The frozen fries in Tokyo are made with less salt than those sold in the U.S. Reason: the Japanese prefer to sprinkle the seasoning themselves. After only...
...Everglades like cracks around a bullet hole in a pane of shatterproof glass. Maps published by the Florida Bureau of Geology in 1974 show a pit-like dip in the area's underground geological contours. Magnetic readings in the Everglades suggest the presence of a subterranean mass of metallic ore that could conceivably be the remains of an asteroid. Finally, scientific journals have noted that a commonly found rock stratum, called the Ocala formation, is suspiciously absent in southern Florida. Petuch suggests that it was hurled into the sky during impact...
...ease and lack of frustration that come from writing on a computer make the machine ideal. When I went back to school to finish an electronics degree, I purchased a word processor. Not only was I more creative, but writing became fun instead of drudgery. Thomas M. Nathe Salem, Ore...
After reading your article on the travails of Portland's police chief [NATION, April 14], I tried to decide whether you were talking about Portland, Me., or Portland, Ore. I found no reference in the story to help define the place in question. Please, where is Portland? Michael Jay Park Fort Wayne...
...theft, which took place last year but was disclosed only last week, involved, among other things, some 40 advanced computer work stations manufactured by Tektronix, a small, specialized firm based in Beaverton, Ore., along with an unspecified number of computer disk drives produced by Control Data of Minneapolis. Tektronix salesmen apparently believed they had sold the equipment to a West German unit of Ford Motors through a Munich-based middleman named Wolfgang Lachmann. After the equipment was sent to Munich, it was allegedly shipped to a warehouse in Vienna; from there it disappeared...