Word: labs
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...electronic music, and the group reflects the richness and diversity of San Francisco's electronic music scene. The CD also suggests San Francisco's close ties to the computer industry in the Silicon Valley: the first track is a CD-ROM file featuring hallucinogenic digital imagery by SFX Lab...
...tender age of 16, I flew out to Vancouver, British Columbia to work in a chemistry lab for the summer. But I did not immediately realize that a paid job in Canada was not all that my dual Canadian-American citizenship could secure. Soon I was introduced to an entirely new sphere of alcohol consumption...
...first week at the lab, it turned out that a longtime post-doctoral fellow was leaving. We had the obligatory dinner in Chinatown and then made our way to a local piano bar. Not just any piano bar, mind you, but the one that advertised on almost every bus station bench in the city--two duelling pianos, four painists, "Great Balls of Fire" and the like. High publicity equals high security, I thought as I began to sweat...
...imbibing liters (it's Canada, come on) of various fermented fluids, I finally got buzzed. Not by the sweet-tasting peach, plum, cherry or pear ciders that were so easy to chug down but still packed an eight percent punch, no. It was on my last afternoon in the lab, when we adjourned for beers. Four beers in less than half an hour was all it took to make me a little wobbly (hardly out of control, though) on the stairs...
...years ago, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials inspecting Harvard labs found scientists using radioactive materials without wearing protective lab coats or film badges to monitor exposure. Instead, the researchers wore shorts...