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...Freon. When he opened it later, he found he had accidentally created a slippery white powder. General Leslie Groves, heading the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, heard about the substance from a Du Pont friend when his scientists were looking for a material for gaskets that could resist the bomb's corrosive gas, uranium hexafluoride. Groves had Du Pont make Teflon for the bomb, but it wasn't until 1960 that it coated pans and muffin tins. Today pacemakers and other devices use it, as it's one of the few materials the body doesn't reject...
...gloom amid boom is a comment more on our national mood swings than on the state of our economy or scientific culture. If we can just keep our heads, take our meds and resist fear itself, we'll do just fine...
Perle is not a traditional financial writer in the school of Suze Orman but rather a keen psychological observer of her own guilt, magical thinking and emotional dodges when it comes to money. Using herself as an example, she offers rules for how women can resist the fiscal wrongheadedness dragging them down. Among them...
...Resist Your "Inner Stewardess" "During those panicky episodes when I feel the urgent need to stay connected to money at any cost, she pops out with her jaunty little hat and white gloves," she says...
Gergen, according to two individuals who were told of his advice, urged Summers to be “presidential” and resist apologizing too extensively or too frequently. Through an assistant, Gergen declined to comment on his role. Other advisers to Summers named in this article also declined to comment or did not respond to phone messages and e-mails over the past several months...