Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some, for example, may recall having seen Iranians burn large numbers of U.S. flags and Uncle Sams in effigy. Or they may recall that, historically, Iran has not always been helpful towards the United States in the field of hostage negotiations...
While little is known about how growth factors work, there is no doubt of their importance. Doctors at Harvard Medical School use EGF to grow skin for grafting onto burn patients. Other growth factors may hold important clues about cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Cohen seemed surprised by the Nobel award. "You just keep on trying to find things," he said. "I'm very happy that the work we've been doing the last 25 to 30 years turned out to be important...
...Combustion, that's what this is about, putting engines in cars that burn oil more effectively. This is about improving all manner of processes that require chemical reactions," said Henry Schaefer, a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley...
What I had to do was to develop a talent "to save," and I developed it, God knows. I tried to make sure that "manuscripts don't burn," to borrow a phrase from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- and to make sure that Andrei's writing would not rot in the cellars of Lubyanka or some other prison...
Rhonda J. Roberts '86 had similar reasons for leaving. "I left because I was starting to burn out. Things were beginning to have no meaning for me," Roberts says. "What good does it do to go to class and take note without knowing how what you're learning affects other people? I started thinking it would be nice to see some of what I'm learning in practice...