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...chemical experiment went wrong at the Mallinckrodt Laboratories on Oxford St. last Friday, causing an explosion that shattered glass and injured an employee. The employee, whose name and present condition could not be determined yesterday, was taken to Cambridge Hospital. The lab itself was not visibly damaged...
...names include: the Ridley Boat Club, Canada's 1984 Olympic gold medalists and last year's Head Championship Eight winners; The Rude and the Smooth, the famed '75 Harvard crew; Andy Sudduth, a 1984 Olympic silver medalist and last year's Head singles champ; and crews from Navy, Wisconsin, Oxford and--of course--Harvard...
...American university which has sent the most Rhodes Scholarship winners to Oxford: Harvard, with...
...meeting in Washington, by man. They attribute the developing ecological disaster to the systematic destruction of the world's tropical rain forests, particularly those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Deforestation at the hands of loggers, farmers, ranchers and mining concerns, says Norman Myers, an environmental consultant based in Oxford, England, may result in the eradication of 1 million species by the end of the century. Harvard Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson concurs. "The extinctions ongoing worldwide," he says, "promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred...
...recent years, Harvard has begun an effort to clear some of its older buildings of asbestos. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford St., the problem was acute and was blamed by some for causing cancer in students and faculty who worked in the building...