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KRAZY GLUE Harry Coover accidentally discovered cyanoacrylate, the substance in Krazy Glue, on two different occasions: first when trying to create a see-through plastic for gun sights during World War II and then years later, in 1951, when at Kodak attempting to develop a heat-resistant polymer for jet canopies. Both times the new substance was too sticky for his needs. Kodak marketed it in 1958 as an all-purpose, supersticky glue. In Vietnam, medics used it to save lives, sealing cuts before injured soldiers reached a hospital...
...DEAS faculty said that recommendation “provides too little incentive and structure for undergraduates to do advanced work and to develop the kind of superior scientific knowledge on which the advancements of science, engineering, and technology depend...
Abernathy said the second statement emerged from concerns that the reform proposal does not provide concrete incentives—in the form of funding, teaching fellows and other support—that the Core Office currently gives faculty who develop Core courses...
...winner's harshest assessment to date of Iran's nuclear program, and will state his inability to certify that it exists for exclusively benign purposes. The delay will also give Russia five more weeks to pursue its own efforts to find a negotiated solution. Russia, which has helped Iran develop nuclear reactors, proposes enriching uranium for those reactors on Russian soil-a proposal that would eliminate the need for Iran to maintain its own enrichment facilities, which would be essential to any covert effort to create weapons-grade nuclear material...
...higher level of flexibility for students, putting them in control of their own education. As for the transition to the new system, there are two clear alternatives. Students could be expected to complete the Core requirements that existed when they enrolled as freshmen, giving the faculty time to develop the new courses in general education while the rest of the student body would still be stuck with the Core. Alternatively, the new distribution requirements could be implemented immediately. Assuming the Faculty votes by the end of the year, which could be impacted by Kirby’s recent decision...