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...just as effective at cleaning clothes as their brand-name counterparts. According to the “Did You Know?” section of the label on vegetable-based detergent Seventh Generation, “If every household in the U.S. replaced just one bottle of 100 oz. 2x ultra petroleum-based liquid laundry detergent with our 100 oz. 2x ultra vegetable-based product, we could save 460,000 barrels of oil—enough to heat and cool 27,000 U.S. homes for a year...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: Tide of Change | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...replace negatives with a single contact sheet that displays thumbnail images of an entire roll at a glance. So I decided to put three brand-new models from Canon, Konica and Minolta to the test. My bar: they had to be sleek and light and come with a 2X zoom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flawed Gems | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Although Nan Zheng's article, "Can Corporation Members Serve Multiple Masters?" (new article, April 2X, 1994) raises a number of interesting issues, it omits information necessary to evaluate this question at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Corporation Free of Conflicts | 4/29/1994 | See Source »

...This is an oddity of academic life. X dollarsbuys the students one professor, 2x dollars buysthem two, but 3x and 4x and 5x dollars graduallyremove the professor from the student, and 6xdollars may replace all the classroom professorswith graduate students...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Bennett: Harvard Epitomizes Failures in Higher Education | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...long to develop natural sciences" because of a "mystical rather than analytical preoccupation with numbers": I had just demonstrated to my seminar on traditional Chinese science at M.I.T. how an interpolation technique developed in the 1st century B.C. had been applied to the solution of equations like 2x³ -85x² -85x -87 = 0. Our next topic is the calculation of eclipses a century later. Please note that the first five volumes (five more are coming) of Joseph Needham's monumental Science and Civilisation in China contain 404 pages of bibliography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1967 | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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