Buying quality furniture requires patience and design sense
The article advises careful checks for frame rigidity and padding, fabric wear, and tailored details. It covers choosing fabrics for lifestyle, testing cushions, zippers, leg attachments, pattern alignment, and the value of interior design guidance, plus a practical recliner and sofa bed test.
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Peggy Heaton
National Home Furnishings Association
Chicago
Heaton
Scientific arson fights pollution
In Farmington Connecticut a team at United Technologies Research Center uses lasers mass spectrometers infrared devices and computers to map flame structure and track chemical reactions. They study soot nitric oxide and burning traits of synthetic fuels to burn fuels more completely with less pollution.
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Farmington. Conn
United Technologies Research Center
Arthur S. Kesten
Energy Research Manager
Ice roads built in Prudhoe Bay for winter transport
An oil company reports fifty miles of ice roads across frozen tundra rivers and Beaufort Sea in Prudhoe Bay last winter at a cost of 3.5 million dollars. The 150 foot wide routes were intended to last four months and carry materials and equipment to new exploration sites. Metal stakes with reflector tips line the roads.
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Prudhoe Bay
Alaska
Beaufort Sea
Oil Company
Top health official foresees anti abortion amendment
Washington based health official Dr Edward N Brandt Jr believes abortion should be allowed only to save the mother's life and favors a constitutional amendment to outlaw voluntary termination of pregnancy He avoided the life beginning question and said federal funds should not pay for abortion related services He favored outlawing abortion through amendment and noted D C procedures are typically used for diagnosis rather than abortion The article recounts his media briefing with reporters and touches on related issues such as funding and related methods like vacuum extraction.
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William Hines
Chicago Sun-Times
Washington
Edward N. Brandt Jr
Brandt
Department of Health and Human Services
Act of Congress
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