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...COOKIN' First milk, now this. A small New Hampshire company is introducing eggs that are pasteurized in the shell. Under a patented process first hatched 10 years ago, the eggs are passed through a series of warm-water baths that kill stomach-sickening salmonella without cooking the eggs or changing their flavor. The final product is even USDA certified. When can you start eating those runny soft-boileds again? The safer eggs, sold under the brand name Davidson's, should be available on the East Coast in time for Easter and rolled out nationwide by year's end. Added cost...
That's the name of the factory in Dalian, China where a yellow Gear For Sports shell jacket from J. August in Harvard Square is reportedly made...
...Parents of students will bite the bullet and pay for expensive housing for four years--they expect to pay for room and board," he says. "But families have to do this every year, and can't shell out as much. This drives rents up incredibly...
...Accounting Office details a rucksack full of problems: the $62,000 backpacks stopped soldiers from lifting their heads while on their bellies. When they rolled over, the packs lifted them far above the ground, pawing the air in what is known, in military parlance, as the "turtle-on-its-shell effect." After that was fixed, key components--radios, helmet display and computer--let water in and electronic radiation out. The batteries lasted for less than five of the required 12 hours' continuous use. And the Army doesn't know how to get new batteries to the front lines...
...Einstein got it. Just before he died, Newton remarked, "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...