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...Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group usually holds its meetings in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. At their most recent meeting, a circle of a dozen students seated on chairs and sofas ringed a coffee table. On its surface were liter bottles of soft drinks, bags of chips and cookies, and unsteady columns of piled plastic cups threatening to tumble over on top of the large University Dining Services fruit and cheese plate which had pushed them to the edge of the round tabletop. Podolsky and Ben Rahn, the other leader of the group, welcomed everyone and then went through...
...researchers were cleaning up an infrequently-used chemical storage area in an attic of the Converse Chemical Laboratories. One researcher turned around a two-liter glass bottle of isopropyl chloroformate, an eye and skin irritant, to identify it. Moments later, the bottle burst...
MWRA water has a pH level of 9, and analkalinity of 30 milligrams per liter. Higher pHlevels signal reduced corrosivity, he said, whilehigher alkalinities make the pH level more stable...
When Jeff Gordon won the Coca-Cola 600 last month, he celebrated with a liter of Pepsi, his new soft-drink sponsor. It was only fair. He won the Pepsi 400 while representing Coke. The two cola giants went wheel to wheel to roll up Gordon's endorsement, one measure of the man's crossover status as a national marketing icon. With two Winston Cup stock-car championships in the past three seasons, the California-born, Indiana-honed speed merchant is one of the hottest athletes in an even hotter sport...
...course of the inventory, a little before 10:30 a.m., the researchers handled a glass two-liter bottle of the caustic chemical isopropyl chloroformate, an eye and skin irritant, and then replaced it on a top shelf...