Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspect apparently entered through the broken door to I-Entry, which is connected to A-Entry by a fourth-floor hallway. Residents said they have not been able to lock the I-Entry door since they moved in. The door has since been fixed...
What's needed, as far as the University is concerned, is for students to be reminded of the need to lock their doors whenever a couple of hundred thousand come for a visit. Sure, something unpleasant might still happen to someone, but that's not sufficient cause for a guard at every door...
...honors the passage of time by retelling beloved old knee slappers. Her son, now grown, comes home for a visit, throws the door open, and just the way he used to 15 years ago, looks her in the eye and asks, "Anyone home?" Her adult kids still lock themselves in the bathroom till the dishes are done. Leftovers? Sure, but we roar for more...
...chemistry involved in carpet cleaning." Cram, Pedersen and Lehn, working independently, shared the award for their work in "host-guest" chemistry. "The basis of our work," explains Lehn, "is the way molecules are able to recognize each other." In nature, molecules that work together have complementary shapes, like a lock and a key, and only the right key will fit to initiate a given reaction. In essence, the trio managed to create synthetic molecular keys that fit the locks as well. Those new molecules have been used experimentally to partially detoxify rats contaminated with lead or radioactive strontium...
...Sullivan" of Manhattan's lube tube. "My show is for adults," she says. "If children watch it, it's because parents aren't doing their job." So it would seem. In 1985 Manhattan Cable (a subsidiary of Time Inc.) offered its 228,000 subscribers the option of a "lock box" so parents could scramble Channel J. Only 19 boxes were installed...