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...steps not unlike those in any U.S. water plant. First comes a "scrubbing" with ferric chloride and other chemicals; then the heavier particles of dirt are allowed to settle to the bottom of tanks while the lighter ones are removed by filtering. Elsewhere in the plant, in twelve huge stainless-steel containers, ozone is produced by bombarding dried, refrigerated and pressurized air with up-to-20,000-volt bolts of electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: New Water | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Replacing lost teeth is a tricky business at best. Fastening a false tooth to its "virgin" neighbors may undermine those adjacent teeth. Using anchors of stainless steel or vitallium to implant the replacement often causes infection or deterioration of the jawbone. A promising new technique developed by the University of Southern California school of dentistry and the Vitredent Corp. of Los Angeles seems likely to overcome both problems. The empty socket is filled with a root replacement of vitreous carbon; then the false tooth is fastened to this foundation. Carbon, the base of all living matter, is compatible with human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 9, 1973 | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...baby was born with a stainless-steel spoon in its mouth. It is still there, full of creamed corn, held by Mom, who is plump and pretty. Dad stands slight ly to the rear, a large drink held confidently against an incipient paunch. As gathered by the lens of Bill Owens' cam era, the scene is a family portrait abounding in casual miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBURBIA: The Home That Jack Built | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Boston Police Detective David Campbell said yesterday that the thieves were probably more interested in the typewriter than the sculpture. He added that the $3000 arrangement of stainless-steel cubes "might be in a garbage pail or destroyed...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley, | Title: Police Fear Thieves Dumped Valuable Sculpture by Mistake | 5/22/1973 | See Source »

...steel industry is working at realistic capacity for the first time since the mid-1950s. Production has climbed to an unprecedented 3,000,000 ingot tons a week. Still, mills cannot keep pace with demand. Orders placed now for sheet steel will not be filled until August; buyers of stainless will have to wait even longer. Steelmen believe that customers are buying steel now before prices go higher. Last week U.S. Steel jacked up the cost of sheet and strip steels by an average 4.8%, effective June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: A Troubling Tidal Wave | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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