Word: heating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INDUSTRY Waste heat and industrial runoff turn rivers warm and toxic--bad news for salmon, which like their water clear and cold. New pollution controls are needed...
...Baekeland and others aiming to find commercial opportunities in the nascent electrical industry, that gunk was a signpost pointing toward something great. The challenge for Baekeland and his rivals was to find some set of conditions--some slippery ratio of ingredients and heat and pressure--that would yield a more workable, shellac-like substance. Ideally it would be something that would dissolve in solvents to make insulating varnishes and yet be as moldable as rubber. Starting around 1904, Baekeland and an assistant began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland...
...many other Harvard athletic events). Perhaps Volonnino is unaware that the H-Club's presence is not determined solely by the visible marker of dozens of Crimson Crazies t-shirts which, incidentally, are far less suited to the temperature of a hockey rink than they are to the heat of a gymnasium...
...black of box-like taxis. This is the London everyone knows. But there is another London, where the neighborhood green grocer and ironmonger putter about their shop windows in the early morning dawn while the butcher hangs chickens with their heads down and eyes glassy. In the heat of summer, glass pint bottles full of milk stand on front steps waiting to be brought inside, and men of age with no visible signs of fitness sunbathe in the verdant parks with their white dress shirts folded neatly at their sides. In the dark of winter, office workers scurry through...
...last week's "heat wave" pushed the temperature into the 60s, residents took to the outdoors in force, swarming the squares and jamming the recreational paths in Cambridge...