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 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.

ECONOMIST: Letters

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.

ENGADGET

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.

NEWYORKER: United 93