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...most-fun software I saw came from a small Madison, Wis., shop called Sonic Foundry. Sonic's new line of sound-editing programs lets you create amazing music, even if you have a tin ear. I tried Sonic's Acid Rock ($49.95), which comes with more than 500 sound clips. You can listen to any clip by simply selecting it; when you find a sound you like, slap it onto a track in the editing room. Lay down a bass line, add percussion and instrumentation--the software will even resolve the key so that everything harmonizes. What...
...phosphorous acid spill in the Lyman Physics Laboratories followed a week later, requiring the evacuation of the Lyman, Jefferson and Cruft laboratories. The chemical was leaking from a container in the basement machine shop of Lyman...
...board outside Lenny Solomon's office in Mallinckrodt Laboratory is filled with articles on "safety news." It includes emergency phone numbers, an article titled "Contact Lenses and Chemicals: an update" and a display of different types of gloves and their uses. There are pages about compressed gas cylinders, hydrofluoric acid and hazardous waste, amid a safety report about incidents, analysis and prevention...
...Chemicals and Plastics plant. A month later, half a dozen similarly hazardous chemicals were released but remained on plant grounds. The following year, in July 1997, vinyl-chloride monomer and ammonia escaped from the plant and forced the closing of Route 73. In July 1998, a cloud of hydrochloric acid spewed out, shutting down roads in the area for about 20 minutes...
...angioplasty with stents (successful just the other day; a couple of efforts to unblock other coronary tunnels by angioplasty failed painfully), and a supporting cast of ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, cholesterol thwarters, diuretics, aspirin to make the platelets slippery, nitroglycerine, blood-pressure suppressants, vitamin E, folic acid, a rowing machine, a stoic personality and the diet of a desert mystic. It goes without saying that a heart attack is also a good way to quit smoking. I was instantly cured of nicotine addiction that night in Kansas City...