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...quick 2-0 lead, the Crimson defense lapsed just long enough for Bowdoin's Katrina Altmaier to slip in and score the Polar Bears' lone goal. From then on the Harvard team used its airtight defense to hold the Bowdoin squad scoreless...
...energy than it saves. When wood is burned in an open fireplace, 50% of its energy goes up the chimney. Worse, chimney drafts suck even more heat out of the house itself. Wood stoves, generally priced at $400 to $600, eliminate the waste by putting the fire in an airtight metal chamber that regulates the oxygen flow by means of an adjustable vent. This produces a hotter, slower-burning blaze than in a fireplace. More important, the stove throws its heat into the room instead of up the chimney...
...straitjacket of the Cultural Revolution. "The great spiritual wealth created by mankind was strange to them " it said. "They never heard of such names as Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Hugo and Mozart. Young people's minds were locked up in airtight cells. Now the prison has been smashed...
Those arguments are difficult to refute, not because they are themselves so airtight, but because it is so easy to rip through them and skid out of control into another, equally dangerous extreme. It is, for example, too simple to go all the way over the edge, to invoke the sanctity of a free speech and press, and to deny a newspaper's right to refuse any ads at all. There are those, after all, who hold that a newspaper has no right at all to deny access to its columns--to restrict the right of free speech...
Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology, said yesterday "The case is airtight, Burt was a fraud in many ways." He added that "all this nonsense about IQ and heredity" depended on Burt's evidence. "That they were fraudulent was to be expected," Lewontin said...