Word: halogens
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...Harvard, mice are treated in a far more deluxe fashion. A $1.6 million facility currently under construction in the Biological Labs will hold approximately 11,000 of the small furry rodents and attend to every want from decor--the halogen look--to health concerns--the facility will be completely virus-free...
...fellow partythrowers. But the only cool theme we conceived was a Ren and Stimpy party, which, we all agreed, would have required large quantities of hallucinatory drugs to convince guests that they were really inside a cartoon. "A beach party!" exclaimed another roommate. "We could put all our halogen lamps and space heaters in one room, spread sand all over the floor, and fill a kiddie pool with water!" "Or beer," someone quickly suggested. But we decided that this was really more a pitiful attempt to attract large numbers of bikini-clad women than a workable party idea. Finally, someone...
Many council members, however, disputed their claims of discomfort, citing that residents of 29 Garden St. enjoy carpeted rooms, halogen lamps, kitchens, refrigerators and even have the option of cable television...
...ghettoized first-years at 29 Garden St. are right to be angry. Faced this summer with housing assignments that left them in the cold northern end of campus--practically in the suburbs of the Quad houses--they had no choice but to claim their free T-shirts and halogen lamps and console themselves in their spacious quarters with hot chocolate brewed in their personal kitchens...
...scientists at the University of Genoa, Italy, noted that the rays coming from unshielded quartz-halogen lamps can induce mutations in the DNA of bacteria. Since genetic mutations are one cause of cancer, they decided to move up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. They subjected specially bred hairless mice to the lights 12 hours a day for a year and found that every one developed skin tumors -- most benign, but some cancerous. The research, reported in the British journal Nature, involved only a handful of mice, so it was labeled a pilot study. But the results were...