Word: benches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientific myths are made. Fleming, a young Scottish research scientist with a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory--that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects--when he left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday...
...chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced to great fanfare that they had done just that, building a bench-top fusion percolator made up of two electrodes and a slug of heavy water. But Pons and Fleischmann were vague about how their "cold fusion" reactor worked, and when other scientists tried to duplicate the pair's results, they got mostly cold water for their trouble...
...course, the Gophers' average margin of victory of 4.73 goals leaves ample room for bench contributions. This and all of Minnesota's accomplishments are qualified by its schedule, as geographic isolation has sheltered the Gophers from the rough-and-tumble ECAC...
...money or prestige. But how much would it take to encourage someone to keep his lips sealed over a misdemeanor, to look the other way when the stench of academic dishonesty threatens to foul up a pretty good season? Especially if he knows that the guy on the other bench would sell his own son for a Sweet Sixteen berth (no offense, Mr. Knight...
...money or prestige. But how much would it take to encourage someone to keep his lips sealed over a misdemeanor, to look the other way when the stench of academic dishonesty threatens to foul up a good season? Especially if he knows that the guy on the other bench would sell his own son for a Sweet Sixteen berth (no offense, Mr. Knight...