Word: manhattanization
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...Plunkett, a young Du Pont chemist, was trying to find a new kind of refrigerant for manufacturers and filled a tank with a gas related to Freon. When he opened it later, he found he had accidentally created a slippery white powder. General Leslie Groves, heading the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, heard about the substance from a Du Pont friend when his scientists were looking for a material for gaskets that could resist the bomb's corrosive gas, uranium hexafluoride. Groves had Du Pont make Teflon for the bomb, but it wasn't until 1960 that...
...absolutely, 100% see why this book seemed like a good idea at the time. Two Manhattan couples are busily glossing over the structural flaws in their marriages and in their personal value systems, minding their own business, when Sept. 11 arrives to smack them upside their well-coiffed heads. And who better to snap the reaction shot than Jay McInerney, novelist to the cool and moneyed, author of Bright Lights, Big City? Midlife epiphanies, check. Astute social observation, check. Reality check, check...
...YORK—Local politicians, national union leaders, and Harvard labor activists gathered here in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan last Thursday to rally behind graduate students at New York University who have been on strike for nearly three months...
...team-high 18 in the second half, while center Mark MacDonald added 16. The Crimson regained its footing at second place in the Ivy standings with Yale, and trailed league-favorite Penn’s 2-0 mark. Harvard continues its road trip next Friday in Manhattan, where it will take on Columbia. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson now stands tied in second place in the Ivy standings with Yale, trailing league favorite Penn's 2-0 mark. Harvard continues its road trip next Friday by traveling to Manhattan to take on Columbia...