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Among the oddest of many unexplained effects of strokes is that a patient's perception of the vertical is tilted. But whether it is tilted to right or left depends on which side of his brain has been injured. With paralysis on the left side, a right-handed man...
The problem that needs examination, then, is the deficiency of service-frequency, comfort, convenience, speed, safety, reliability and cost. Among the possibilities listed in the report: improvement of existing railroad rights-of-way that would provide line-haul running speeds of 100-150 m.p.h.; new railroad rights-of-way or...
ording to Dr. George P. Berry, Dean Faculty of Medicine, the $4.5 milbrary will be a vertical, eight level ure of stone, steel, and glass, built d an open central inner light court. und will be broken for the Count Library early next spring, and the ng is scheduled for...
way Library was designed by hitectural firm of Hugh Stubbins sociates, the Cambridge designers lanned the Loeb Drama Center. The building will have six levels above ground and two below, with underground storage stacks extending beyond the vertical wall limits of the central library.
They bored a slanting shaft deep into their mountain (see diagram). Above the shaft they mounted a heliostat (a flat mirror). As the mirror turns to follow the sun across the sky, it reflects the sun's rays down the shaft where they are reflected back and focused by...