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...opening stanza, with Harvard holding a 1-0 lead, Pedroni looped around the backside of the net, dodged the defenders, then whirled and fired the ball past Liu. And at 5:53 Pedroni carbon copied his first score right up to the shot, which he jump-hooked into the net for a 3-0 Harvard lead...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Laxmen Manhandle Hapless Elis, 17-7 | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

After reading the two letters regarding hotel fire safety [March 16], I believe the general public may have some misunderstanding of the subject. A "simple gas mask" would not provide oxygen or protection against carbon monoxide. And a plastic hose would surely not be a shield against fire roaring down a hallway at 2000° F. What is needed is the adoption of tougher building-and fire-code standards. Until then we will continue to have more fires and more deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1981 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...through the roof critically and commercially. Alas. audiences and rock critics can't digest so much. They prefer two-or-three-chord junk food--who said rock and roll wasn't about arrested development? Of course the songs on Get Happy!! didn't "breathe"--they were choked with carbon monoxide and tears of boredom, frustration, rage. Elvis was a ferret trapped in a septic tank...He got his rocks off that time, the fury dribbled out, and Trust is his depressing post-coital meditation--no longer an active participant. Elvis watches us all from the stage. Trust, his most objective...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...fact is, though, that carbon 14 dating, for example, has been verified against historical records going back to ancient Egypt and the known ages of 2,000-year-old trees. Other radioactive methods have been used to date earlier epochs, like the age of the earth, and in a variety of trials they have produced a consistent pattern. The creationist argument is a bit like claiming that because some trains are canceled or run way off schedule, the basic timetable is totally inaccurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Putting Darwin Back in the Dock | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...heart of the settlement process is a funds transfer form that looks like an airline ticket and consists of a top page titled "credit," a carbon page and a bottom page titled "debit." According to Cooley, Lewis defeated the bank's fraud defenses by using the tickets to hoodwink Wells Fargo's computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropping By to Keep His Hand In | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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