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There was never any possibility of covering up the major industrial accident that rocked the Jilin Petrochemical Company last month. The 50-year-old facility, built with Soviet technology, is China's showcase chemical complex, alma mater to the country's top chemical engineers. On the afternoon of Nov. 13, pressure built up in a 40-m tower at plant No. 101, where nitric acid and benzene are combined to make nitrobenzene, a highly toxic liquid. Technicians tried to relieve the pressure but failed, and the column exploded, killing five workers and injuring 70 others. Five more explosions followed...
That first time is supposed to be a one-off arrangement; neither one wants or expects to fall in love with another man. And indeed, after their summer together, each gets married: Ennis to the sweet Alma (Michelle Williams), with whom he has two children, Jack to Lureen (Anne Hathaway), daughter of a prosperous farm-equipment dealer. Four years pass before Jack returns to Ennis and they begin taking "fishing trips" together--even though Jack is becoming something of a yearning prairie cruiser in the interim...
...they will never give one dime to Harvard after they leave because of these overreactions.Hand-wringing and reactionary maneuvers are not the solution to college drinking. If Harvard wants to maintain the reputation it has had for three and a half centuries, it needs to cultivate love of alma mater in its students, not pander to the whims of media outlets and cave to the fears of alarmists.Let’s leave that kind of nonsense to Yale. Andrew Kreicher ’06 is a biology concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
Offsay agrees that beating Farrar’s alma mater, and the team’s biggest Ivy rival, was the best part of the season...
...Alma also succeeded, albeit questionably, in climbing the social ladder. “Then last of all Alma was put in, in spite of the fact that a few people were skeptical. I know she will be perfectly great—a Freshman must not be judged too harshly for all her chance acquaintances...