Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written down anywhere, you understand. No, I will not give you a single detail." Avery and an assistant, Training Officer Lieutenant Motley, journeyed to the palace six weeks ago to give the bride-to-be an approving peek at their design. The batter had gone into the oven a month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session...
...protein from cowhide and a complex carbohydrate derived from shark cartilage. When mixed with an acidic solution, the two ingredients become short white fibers. Freeze-dried and vacuum treated to remove moisture, the fibers form a light and highly porous white sheet of material, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature. The topmost layer, equivalent to the epidermis, is made by bonding a viscous plastic onto the cowhide-shark sheet. The completed skin is then freeze-dried and stored in sterile, closed containers at room temperature...
...NOTEBOOK: Don't tell the Quincy House dining hall ladies, but Dartmouth's Thayer dining room serves better bread (and other food) than its Harvard counterparts. Nothing fancy, but fresh, out-of-the-oven bread, and you cut it yourself... The first thing the Crimson hoop squad saw as its bus steamed into Hanover was a still-unfinished ice sculpture of that master of kiddie lit, Dr. Seuss. After a little investigative reporting, one learned that the good doctor is a Dartmouth alumnus and this weekend's Winter Carnival is a tribute to him.... Football wide receiver-turned-basketball forward...
...Many critics, recoiling at the potential cost of $100 billion or so for the first satellite, called his idea a pie-in-the-sky space boondoggle. Others worried about the effects of microwave radiation, fretting that passengers in passing airplanes might be flash-cooked like roasts in a microwave oven...
...beam would always be locked on target; in fact, it would disperse altogether if the satellite did not receive continuous electronic cues from a transmitter in the rectenna. Along its edge, said Glaser, the beam would be much less powerful than permissible leak age from a closed microwave oven...