Word: labs
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...DIED. LEWIS URRY, 77, whose invention of a long-life battery made possible a host of portable devices; after a brief illness; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide?s Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one model car barely moved while another, powered with his now-ubiquitous alkaline battery, raced round and round the company cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who ?took special pride around Christmas, when...
...breath—this shop is not for the faint-hearted. The second floor is packed with racks of clothing, from intricate, multi-piece expensive costumes to vintage shirts, shoes and tacky pearl necklaces. And for all the wannabe bio concentrators, The Garment District’s selection of lab coats will make your heart pound. Shopping at The Garment District without direction is chaotic. With an idea in mind, however, this is the best place to piece together the crazy costume of your dreams
Over the years, Loker Commons has filled many roles: it’s been everything from a lab for B. F. Skinner’s early experiments of conditioned behavior, to a swanky juice bar where health-conscious undergrads could find freshly squeezed beet, celery and carrot juices...
...inopportune moments in class likely goes to your parents and rarely tops 40 or 50 dollars. The upshot of all this is that you can IM your blockmate in the next room (“Dinner?” “sure.”) or your lab partner in the Quad at liberty, and call Grandpa Max in Wichita (provided it’s a weekend or after 8 p.m.) and never have to worry about how much it costs...
There are startling images of Field’s makeshift lab on the Marshlands, taking measurements and physical samples. Overall, Field collected 221 profiles of men, describing their physical characteristics and recording anthropological measurements (dimensions of the body, facial and skill ratios) in statistical tables...