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...East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil, and say, "He who gave us teeth will give us bread...
Adams' battery consisted of a lightweight container, one electrode made of magnesium and another of cuprous chloride. It could be stored indefinitely and activated by simply pouring in fresh or salt water. While cooking up some cuprous chloride on his wife's stove, Adams accidentally dropped cigarette ashes into the brew-and vastly improved it. Moreover, when his battery was connected to a load, a chemical reaction took place that produced heat. As a result, the battery worked surprisingly well at temperatures...
...great bohemians, Giacometti loved to haunt cafes until late at night. His stingy 12-ft. by 15-ft. studio, lit by a dusty studio window and bare light bulbs, heated by a potbellied stove, was strewn with butts of cigarettes that he chimneyed at the rate of three or four packs a day. Its grimy floor was for Giacometti a battlefield. He once made a model sit in the same pose for years in a vain attempt to capture her likeness. He traveled little except for trips to Stampa, Switzerland, at Christmas and New Year...
Despite stiffening competition from large manufacturers, many small and nimble entrepreneurs have outmaneuvered the lumbering giants by marketing simple or highly specialized products. Atlanta's Alvin Weeks, 41, started out by whipping up divinity fudge on his mother-in-law's stove, got the idea of producing pastries in easy-to-heat foil pans; this year his Aunt Fanny's Baking Co. will sell $6,000,000 worth of sweet rolls. Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 35, who took a lump of wallpaper cleaner and made it into one of the nation's most popular toys...
...antimatter can coexist. A layer of hot ambiplasma (matter and antimatter particles in the process of annihilation) may sometimes be created, he says, when matter and antimatter meet. Like the insulating layer of steam that forms between a drop of water and the surface of a very hot stove, the ambiplasma would separate and repulse the hostile regions. In that way, Alfvén believes, the two forms of matter could be prevented from committing mutual destruction...