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Three Harvard bands--the Dance Bandits. Jane's Parents and Off the Cuff--as well as a student-run disc-jockey company. Liquid Sound, all provided tree music for the marathon...
...grappled with problems related to the theories of melting, hydrodynamics--dynamics of fields in motion--turbulence, magnetism, and liquid crystals. Most recently, Nelson has taken up the question of the transition from solid to liquid matter...
...Simons, 86, chemist who discovered one of the first practical ways to synthesize fluorocarbons; of Parkinson's disease; in Gainesville, Fla. In the late 1930s, as a professor at Penn State, Simons found that passing fluorine through an arc of carbon gas produced a few drops of clear liquid fluorocarbon, but his discovery had no obvious use. A few years later, when scientists could not find enough fissionable uranium to build the Abomb, Simons rescued the jar of fluorocarbon from a filing cabinet. The resulting chemical reactions yielded highly fissionable uranium 235. By the mid-1950s more than...
...asked officials there to keep her comfortable while she starved herself to death. In mid-December, California Superior Court Judge John H. Hews ruled that Bouvia "does have the right to terminate her existence, but not .. . with the assistance of society." Three days later, Bouvia stopped drinking the liquid protein that was keeping her alive. Three days after that, although she struggled with all the strength her frail body could muster, an I.V. tube was inserted in her arm. It was replaced, on Christmas Day, with a nasogastric feeding tube. Since the force-feeding began, a 24-hour nurse...
...Denver-based Doctor Who Fan Club of America has 18,000 members, each of whom receives a liquid-crystal badge that changes colors with body heat. Says Club President Ron Katz, 39: "I get a lot of letters from school principals who say that kids are not studying, they're rubbing their Doctor Who badges...