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...council has not tackled the big issues on student agendas: the paucity of good core courses, problems with teaching fellows and sections, and problems with grading in some departments. Chocolate milk, grants, and foam fingers are nice, but academics are why we all came to Harvard...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Improve Student Life | 2/20/1986 | See Source »

With Tang's advice in mind, the half-filled room of council members threw their weight behind a plan designed to prove they hadn't lost touch with their constituents. The council voted to spend $500 dollars of student-supplied money to buy fingers--foam rubber "Big Fingers," which will proclaim that Harvard, like every other North American university with an athletic team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sticky Fingers | 1/15/1986 | See Source »

...beer, often Coors, to sell other brands. It means not being fooled by flashy ads and new brand names. Don't buy Coors products until the people that make them are allowed a decent environment in which to make a living. It is time to see through the foam and take the head of Coors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through Foam | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

...smoke, fishtailed to a halt two-thirds of the way down the runway on a taxiway, just 200 yds. from the fire station. By the time the call from the emergency control tower came in at 7:13 a.m., firemen were loading into five fire-fighting vehicles equipped with foam. They reached the burning craft within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Never a Year So Bad | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...flight attendants could begin to evacuate the plane, choking smoke, billowing up from the back of the aircraft, enveloped the cabin. Passengers in the rear section are believed to have been overcome immediately by smoke and the toxic fumes that result when polyurethane seat coverings, acrylic carpeting and plastic foam in the seats catch fire. Unlike the lucky few passengers on the JAL flight, for whom rear seats proved a lifesaver, passengers seated in the back of Flight KT 328 never had the slimmest chance of escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Never a Year So Bad | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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