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...make it without electricity, without access to coolants like Freon or fuels like propane? Williams, 26, knew that forcing compressed air through a hole in the middle of a pipe causes hot and cold air to flow from opposite ends, a phenomenon known as the Ranque-Hilsch vortex-tube effect. No one is quite sure how the separation works, but feed the cold air into a container, he reasoned, and you would have an icemaker and a freezer, which would have zero operating costs and would be environmentally friendly, since it wouldn't require chemicals...
...side of the story, because her sister could not be contacted. But it does illustrate that the way siblings negotiate such challenges can determine their future as a family. Those trials can bind brothers and sisters together or, as Deborah's story shows, send them spiraling into a vortex of animosity and despair...
...Philosophy of Law”—the oftentimes unstructured nature of discussions can be less than satisfying. This is not to deny that discussion is a fundamentally good thing. Ideally, we get to share ideas, challenge beliefs and get drunkenly swept away into the whirlwind vortex of passionate opinions and academic interchange. But when one tangential question leads to another, students can get caught up in all the minor nuances of ideas, until by the end Little Red Riding Hood has stepped off the forest path with very little hope of ever returning. As Sahil K. Mahtani...
...ARTS BOOKS: Port Mungo's vortex...
...then, to survey Australian art and culture, in all its fractured forms? With 130 artists in two venues, "2004: Australian Culture Now" is bigger than the Biennale of Sydney, with much more of a local pulse and sense of fun. Film, fashion and furniture all get sucked into the vortex of this monster mash. As the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's Victoria Lynn writes in the catalog, the exhibition's approach "is more in line with the ways in which we absorb and process information today: through fragments, a myriad of databases and search engines...