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...this for yourself--about the time Coles, a grad student at Harvard, spends a week mixing a particular chemical in lab, only to mistakenly pour it down the drain at the very end. His instructor stood there watching and laughing, and didn't stop him. Coles cursed, dropped the flask, and walked...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: How to Get Good Grades | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

...sister's house near Osaka,'' she said, pointing to her husband driving ahead of her on a motorcycle loaded with clothing. ``We're worried that our house might not survive another strong quake.'' An elderly man stayed put, sitting in front of his shattered house, holding a flask. ``Everything is gone,'' he said. ``What can you do except sip sake and smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: WHEN KOBE DIED | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...When I prepare DNA, it doesn't glow orange," he said, referring to a 1984 Newsweek cover featuring a begoggled scientist peering at an incandescent glass flask in a darkened lab with the caption "Preparing...

Author: By Garance Franke-ruta, | Title: Conference Discusses Coverage of Genetics | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...will have a number of concealed jokes for the art-initiated, often genuinely funny ones -- as when, redoing Matisse's Still Life with "Dance" in 1974, Lichtenstein inserted a comic-strip blast of musical notes to give the figures something to jive to and popped a straw-bound Chianti flask (an archetypal kitsch symbol of the artist's studio) into the still life in the foreground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Image Duplicator | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Some students in the class thought that the explosion was caused by the heat building up within a closed system. One student said the elbow joints connecting the flask to the collecting rod did not provide an outlet to release excess...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Lab Explosion Bloodies Two | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

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