Turbomachinery Design

Including ideal gas properties of air

As the number of obese Germans rises, the funeral industry is scrambling to make adjustments in how larger bodies with more fat can be safely incinerated.

“Einstein could not patent his celebrated law that E = mc2; nor could Newton have patented the law of gravity,” he wrote.

150,000+ workers go on strike in South Korea in mid-90's

More than a decade of successful commercial operation.

Benson is a cheapskate that wanted to pay <10% of a new stadium

1979- Marathon demolishes Welham Plantation at midnight

While growing out of honorable roots_ Wasta has exacerbated the "resource curse" in Arab countries...

... Last year outstanding education debt passed credit-card for the first time_ according to Mark Kantrowitz_ publisher of FinAid.org_ a student loan website. Totaling close $1 trillion_ mounting pile is growing drag on housing recovery_ keeping first-time home buyers sidelines and limiting effectiveness record-low interest rates

FAS/CRS report on Oil Company performance. Boon times were built previous work. For example_ Lee Raymond got his big fat bonuses because years earlier_ Exxon purchased Mobil_ which had spend a lot of money capital profits. At one point_ well over 50% Exxon's production came from Mobil projects. was more successful 'drilling Wall Street' than actually drilling wells.

Burning down an ancient treasure for temporary escape from her short_ miserable life. A parable our times.

One of China's top hydrologists, Chen Xing, warned the emergency spillways were underdesigned_ but he was overruled and removed from the project

Eyebrows gets a target on his back

Greed Isn’t Good: Wealth Could Make People Unethical

Standing at last before the building that destroyed Russia filled me with a weird terror. The Nauru Agency Corporation was indeed a shack -- actually, half a shack. One side was rented out. Air-conditioners were stuffed in nearly every window, presumably huffing away to keep the computers cool. The place had the beaten look of a college sophomore's off-campus apartment. Yet I trembled when I walked up close enough to see the letters spelling out Nauru Agency Corporation on the door. Seventy billion dollars. Russian mobsters. Officials in Moscow had been machine-gunned for less.

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He and his people, perhaps unknowingly, had sold off their motherland. It was done gradually, by accretion, and amid the joy of sudden wealth. There were probably rationalizations and explanations, and yet it was an incomprehensible thing to see it and feel it.

Lucky Dog Vendor's robbery plot. Naturally N'Awlins

First practical robot

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Note that this held up production between Norway and the UK.