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...Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Chemistry and Society, explains why. The difference, he says, "is that ingested chromium-6 encounters hydrochloric acid in the stomach's gastric juices, and is converted to chromium-3, which is innocuous." Anyway, he points out, "no single toxin causes the wide array of conditions that afflict Hinkley residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erin Brockovich's Junk Science | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

Along somewhat the same line is the following quotation from the McGill Daily: "American colleges have lately been the objects of severe criticism because of the overemphasis placed on athletics at the expense of cultural pursuits. One striking evidence of the fact, that despite the glorifications of athletics, there is still much cultural opportunity offered on this side of the Atlantic, is found in the establishment of the Charles Eilot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard, and the recently announced appointment to that chair of the distinguished Oxford Professor, Gilbert Murray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPERS HAIL GILBERT MURRAY | 2/8/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard as an undergraduate because of the “pressure.” He insists that unlike the rest of his high school class at St. Paul’s in New Hampshire, he had no interest in coming to Harvard as an undergraduate and ended up at McGill University in Canada, where he graduated in spring of 2000. “I wanted to learn French, I wanted to get out of the United States, and I wanted to learn about a new culture,” he affirms. “Harvard is not the best school...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Become a Harvard Boy | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

Canada went on to score four more goals in the second and six more in the third—including two in the final 30 seconds—and outshot Sweden 70-22. Canadian goaltender Kim St. Pierre, the McGill standout, earned the shutout despite tough point-blank challenges from Swedish forward Maria Rooth, last year’s NCAA Frozen Four MVP from Minnesota-Duluth...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Collision Course | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...same as Vietnam. Americans' compassion exists side by side with our determination to see this war through to the only possible conclusion: the total defeat of those who seek our destruction. We will not give up, we will not retreat, and we will not be destroyed. ROSALIE CANNONE MCGILL Florham Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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