But to be truly urban by today's standards, Midtown East needs texture and variety, different scales and mixed uses, green spaces and reliable infrastructure.

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The supply restriction also makes Washington a more expensive place to live, forces people to commute longer distances, and discourages mixed uses in the downtown core when the next marginal square foot of space always makes the most money as office, why build apartments downtown?

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The team at Beronia uses a mixed barrel program to age the wines, which essentially involves using barrels with American oak staves and French oak ends, a hybrid barrel if you will.

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Already 15% of irrigation in Syria uses drainage flows mixed with fresh water.

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Born from a need to re-create mixed drinks in perfect proportion, Bartendro uses food-grade tubing, pumps and custom-built electronics to pipe liquids out with a measurement accuracy of a milliliter.

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In the IWT's second brainstorming session late last year, Borg mixed nontechnical women with technical women to hash out some uses for technology.

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Health officials used dietary histories taken from the victims and genetic "fingerprinting" of the bacteria to trace the outbreak to a batch of unpasteurized apple juice that Odwalla uses as an ingredient in many of its mixed-fruit beverages.

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Unlike the more familiar turbojet, which uses a turbine-powered fan to compress the incoming air before it is mixed with fuel, a ramjet compresses air by forcing it down an ever-narrowing funnel.

ECONOMIST: Jet propulsion

For this story of semi-anonymous group heroism, he uses actual professionals (pilots, flight attendants, an air-traffic controller) mixed in with largely unknown actors, and avoids visual or verbal rhetoric.

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