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...work. Historically, everyone from chemists to homemakers has tried to figure out just what dust is made of, and the Arizona researchers drew their preliminary data mostly from two studies of household dust conducted in the Netherlands and the U.S. The American survey in particular was a big one, covering six Midwestern states. Layton and Beamer also included a localized study in Sacramento, Calif., that focused particularly on lead contamination. What all those surveys showed was decidedly unappetizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in Household Dust? Don't Ask | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Many of the works on display in the MOBA galleries are accompanied by tongue-in-cheek wall labels that cite a laundry list of famous artists as possible influences, mocking art historical commentary, and criticism. One label, for instance, compares “The Lady with Big Pants” to Goya’s “Nude Maja,” while another pretends that a painting entitled “The Last Dance” may be, “an atypical, late work by iconoclastic French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOBA Changes Trash to Treasure | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...Louis had a big win doing what he usually does,” O’Connor said. “And he did so in convincing fashion. It wasn’t even a close match...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield | Title: Co-Captains Shine in Lopsided Losses | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...that guys are done [with team matches] they can make a big jump,” the coach said. “Right now is an exciting time for Harvard wrestling. We have two shots at a national title...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield | Title: Co-Captains Shine in Lopsided Losses | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...march. There was a buoyant certainty among the faithful that President Obama will score no major legislative victories in 2010, that Republicans will rout the opposition in November's midterm elections and that, as Dick Cheney assured the crowd, Obama will be a one-term President. (See "A Big Tent at the Conservatives' Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Fend Off the 'Failure' Attacks? | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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