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...concentration (whereas the sound of voices or footsteps does). If background noise in an office averages 20 decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library...
Pastore said that "from the information available to me, it is my conviction that some atmospheric testing is necessary." The Rhode Island Senator said the student protestors "have been carried off by cliches and slogans." He observed that "they haven't dealt with the Russians," and therefore "cannot know our problems...
Until federal investigators stepped in, the firm had been shipping 4,000 pints of blood a month to Puerto Rico and about 100 hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Some hospitals received blood that had been "updated" by as much as 42 days...
...wire, wood and burlap and a brooder of wood slats, wire and an old barrel. Formerly, only one of every two San Manuel chicks survived; 49 of 50 chicks that Tomor is raising in a brooder have thrived. Now Tomor hopes to crossbreed good-laying Leghorns with the Rhode Island Reds that lay the brown eggs preferred by Chilean wives. Says Schoolmaster Sandoval Córdoba: "Do you believe what he has done in three weekends? It is the best thing that ever happened here. For the first time the people are beginning to work together as a community...
...simultaneously being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquito-and goes for the mosquito. While doing his best to ignore Communist China's latest incursions in a vast (50,000 sq. mi.), disputed area oi northeastern India, Nehru declared recently that Portugal's lush, Rhode Island-sized colony of Goa on India's west coast was becoming increasingly "intolerable." Last week, for all Neutralist Nehru's past protestations that India would never use force tp eject the Portuguese from the last European colony on Indian soil, his armed forces were building...