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BETWEEN 1961 AND 1966, COLORADO'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN Arsenal cranked out 300,000 M-55 rockets, which are now stockpiled at five of the nation's chemical-weapons storage sites. Too late, the Army discovered that the design of the weapon has a potentially fatal flaw: sarin, the deadly poison that was packed into the nose cone, tends to corrode the aluminum casing. And sarin leaking into the rear chamber accelerates the decay of the stabilizing agent that prevents the rocket fuel from "auto-igniting.'' Because there is no way to safely dismantle the rocket, the deadly nerve agent...
...scholarly merits, the report has one overwhelming flaw: it focuses on analyzing the past at the expense of the present and the future. Forty-three of its 58 pages describe historical events. And even in the last quarter of the report that does discuss the present and the future, Rudenstine does not propose new directions for Harvard but comes down firmly on the side of the status...
...both the origin and the aim of consciousness. It is marvelously expressed in sculptures like Sleeping Muse [III], 1917-18: the ovoid head inflected only by the ghost of a mouth, the delicate V of a nose and the incisions of hair, one of which follows an existing flaw in the veined marble. Part of the magic of his work is its sensitivity to material. Substance and metaphor fuse...
...calendar reform, an issue which enjoys broad student support. When the Undergraduate Council sponsored a resolution in favor of calendar reform, the administration did not seriously review the policy. Administrators and students can disagree, in good faith, about the substantive aspects of these issues. However, there is a fundamental flaw in the administration-student relationship: the administration fails to treat the students as partners, or even serious consultants, in the decision making process...
Playing the servant Louka, Dana Gotlieb '97 made indescribable facial contortions which gave the impression that she was confused about how to express herself. Aside from this flaw, Gotlieb credibly played a very energetic servant who likes to flirt with the boys...