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...Barr and Barr] has been working with us as well as the architect to make sure that if we design it this way, we can construct it how we want at the price we want," she said. "They made a number of good suggestions--not only how to design the project to maximize living space, but also to make sure to address maintenance issues...
...spider silk anyway," laughs zoologist John Gosline of the University of British Columbia. Reason: when wet, spider silk contracts 50%, a property that, in a necktie at least, might prove decidedly unpleasant on damp days. Armed with the tools of molecular biology, however, scientists can learn how spiders construct their silk and then apply those lessons to the design of other fibers. "After all," says Gosline, "we do not aim to copy nature directly, but to adapt her designs and processes to our own purposes...
Today marks the first day of junior parents weekend. A committee of juniors from each of the houses has been meeting on a weekly basis since October to construct a stimulating program for parents. We discussed, we debated, and drawing on the breadth of experience and background of our members, we finally arrived at the printed program of events...
...city's negotiating committee agreed to sell Amherst street to MIT and lease Hayward, Carleton and Vassar Streets to the school. In return, MIT would construct a facility for the shelter, currently in temporary quarters, and lease it to the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation for 40 years, Councillor Jonathan S. Myers said Monday...
...question of what are the politics we live by, what are the roles. Whether they're sexual roles or ethnic roles, there's a whole lot of moving around right now between what were heretofore pretty inviolate categories. I mean, the whole nation that face is a construct which is increasingly useless I don't mean to deny the importance of culture, I think people come from different cultures, and cultures, like families, predispose one to certain behavior--I just think that increasingly the notion of race and culture don't go hand and hand...