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...think it scared anybody," says Ronald C. Eng, a curatorial associate in Invertabrate paleontology. "When the found out about it they took steps," he remarks, saying, "People weren't frightened; they still come in every day and work in the building...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: MCZ Treasures | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...board forecast that growth rates in all five countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations will increase next year by about ½ to 1½ percentage points. High-flying Singapore, with its fast-growing electronics and financial-services industries, will lead the way. Said Board Member Pang Eng Fong of the National University of Singapore: "We feel like a water skier being pulled by a speedboat. We dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roaring Out of the Doldrums | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...like dead in sects." "I came to hate Aberdeen more than any other place I saw." "Up close, Deny was frightful." "I decided that I had seen few places on earth more depressing than Strobane in the rain." "If I had only one word to describe the expression of Eng land's face I would have said: insulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dodger | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...others in the field who stress Bond's skills as a teacherin addition to those as a curator. As with the library, he inherited fromWilliam Jackson a rather esoteric English department course English 296,"Descriptive and Analytical Bibliography." Bond is now Harvard's last professor of Bibliography, explaining that Eng. 296 still "emphasizes that a book can be seen as an artifact special in the way that something might be in the Peabody Museum." In the class, he adds, "we look at the type, the paper the ink, the binding it is a complete study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William H. Bond Retires As Harvard's Premier Librarian | 6/29/1982 | See Source »

Nakashima's forms follow nature. His famous coffee tables are made of planks sliced from the trunk or root systems of such trees as the redwood or Eng lish walnut. Their natural configuration remains unchanged. So do natural breaks in the wood, which Nakashima holds to gether with small pieces of wood shaped like butterflies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Giving a Second Life to Trees | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

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