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...expand and cause a huge amount of damage." Beyond that, says Miller, "concrete is a very forgiving material, and so it can stand up to a lot of cracking and wear. Steel on the other hand, cannot." In a place like Minnesota, where road crews dump corrosive ice melter on roadways by the ton in winter, the problem is even worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did the Bridge Fall? | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Marchan, working from detailed instructions, ladles chicken stock and heaps of butter into a hot sauté pan and waits as the tomato sauce heats under a cheese melter, with Okura and Matz hovering like anxious trainers at the edge of a boxing ring. "You don't have to go so fast," Okura says, giving him a calming pat on the shoulders. He and Matz then shift gears. Instead of having him blanch the pasta, they want Marchan to finish cooking it in the sauté pan and then assemble the layers. His lasagna looks messier than the chef's version. Okura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catering To the Melting Pot | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

Harvard graduated NCAA Champion Jesse Jantzen (149 lbs.) last year, and standout wrestler Max Melter (141 lbs.) is taking the year off to focus on training...

Author: By John Hastrup, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hofstra Overwhelms Young Harvard Wrestling Team | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...both stations, the majority of residents are support staft--cooks, mechanics paramedics and communications operators To get water for their weekly two minute shower, the residents must take a tractor out and gather snow for a snow melter Gail says...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Antarctica: Students Call it Home | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...would have titillated Freud and Krafft-Ebing. One woman confessed that she let her husband think that he was hypnotizing her during the sexual act. Another said that she solved her daughter's marital problems by going to bed with her son-in-law. "That's a melter, Vicki," cooed Ballance. "I think that's neat." Not quite neat enough, however. Next day the daughter called in enraged. "Oh-oh," Ballance said. "And did your dad hear her on the air?" "He certainly did," said the daughter, "and so did his whole construction crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Talk Jockeys | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

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