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...wet, rapid-rewarming approach to frostbite treatment was pioneered by Dr. Mills and Dr. Robert Whaley in Anchorage 16 years ago. This is one of the few areas of medicine in which no major change has taken place for a long time. Bill Mills is the pioneer in this field. Skiers, climbers and cold-climate residents owe him an extraordinary debt of gratitude...
...purposes of Chinese, and not U.S., foreign policy. Following by just 2½ months an unproductive trip to Peking by Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger, the Nixon visit had to be, as one Chinese diplomat put it, "a slap in the belly of Kissinger with a big wet fish...
...Moving the Faculty," Wilson says, "is like pushing a wet string--if you don't persuade everyone simultaneously, you will fail." It was a failure to recognize the Law of the Wet String that brought a swift demise to the reviews of undergraduate education at Yale and Princeton in the early 1970s. Both hinged on the work of a single blue-ribbon committee, and both faltered when they tried to gain faculty approval...
Xerox, it must be noted at the outset, is a trademark of the Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after...
...balmy breeze began to hum a gentle funeral song for the winter of the wet, snowy flake yesterday, as heliomaniacs took to Harvard Yard in droves to bask in the first rays of the spring...