Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Times are likely to become worse for New York's schools as budget cuts begin to eat into teacher rosters and programs. At P.S. 340, a neat, well-tended elementary school in the predominantly black and Puerto Rican South Bronx, Principal Larcelia Kebe worries about managing a full complement of 825 students with fewer teachers this year; 15 of her 35 teachers have been laid off or transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced...
...milligram of saxitoxin can kill an adult, often within an hour, by blocking the transmission of impulses in the nervous system-just as in Fleming's account. Saxitoxin is produced by a single-cell sea creature that flourishes during the warmest months. Oysters, clams and mussels that eat the organism are poisonous to humans, which is why in some areas such seafood is not harvested in summer. By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish. Hence in Japan chefs who prepare puffers are required...
...that makes its way into shallow waters. But scientists have been trying for years to develop more effective methods of dealing with spills. Now one team seems to have succeeded. General Electric announced last week that scientists at its Schenectady, N.Y., laboratories have created a microbe that can eat petroleum in quantity...
...Blacksmith House is undoubtedly the best bakery in Cambridge (the Real Paper even said so last week). I go there to eat and little else, but through the 27th there's a fine exhibit there of photographs of the land, architecture and people of Iran. Their gallery is open...
...involved generally in how the University uses its real estate, Dean Whitlock voices with confidence his theories about Harvard's hands-off policy toward 52-58 Mt. Auburn St. Whitlock maintains that Harvard's allowing the Fly free and privileged use of the land--to "have its cake and eat it too"--results from "a combination of a perceptual deficit and a lack of long-range planning" on the University's part, a one-two punch he hopes the Bok administration is correcting...