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Judging by his story on Starbucks' "new" vacuum coffee pot [TREND ALERT, Oct. 23], you need to send Joshua Quittner to basic-science class. The vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...
...meeting Wednesday, now in a whole different context than anybody expected. The Fed won't move, but it may tinker with its bias, and in the current Washington vacuum, Alan Greenspan's voice could have strange reverberations...
...They've done a vacuum cleaner job of doing research," May said. "In my own judgement, it's gone about as far as it can go. It happened a long time ago, under circumstances which were chaotic. It's clear that American troops were in the area and they were not well...
...Seekers of the Perfect Cup, from the people who made the vente mocha Frappuccino as ubiquitous as the Big Mac, comes Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into...
...sells, even safe sex. Maybe that's why Prada's first skin-care line, launched this week, comes in sealed single-serve packs, center, reminiscent of another health aid. And why Jones, a London boutique starting a fashion line, sent out vacuum-packed washcloths, bottom. Comme des Garcons (Like the Boys), natch, has been working this look with its perfumes, at top, and T shirts for years...