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...Langton's book, the tunnels are used by the cronies of a fictional University President to plant dynamite under Sanders Theatre, and to poison a Sanders audience with carbon monoxide in the air ducts...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Subterranean World Lurks Beneath Harvard | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...obvious replacement, but it had a couple of problems that seemed insurmountable. The first emerged when scientists tried to lay copper onto silicon. The tiny copper atoms filtered into the porous silicon like hot coffee dripping though a percolator. Copper is so conductive that just one hyperkinetic atom could "poison" the entire silicon surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHIPS AHOY | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

Despite Monday's Republican "poison pill" amendment to a campaign finance bill (TIME Daily), the Senate continues to debate the issue Tuesday (AllPolitics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's News | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

DIED. GERDA CHRISTIAN, 83, Adolf Hitler's devoted secretary; in Dusseldorf, Germany. Christian was on hand at the Fuhrer's eleventh-hour wedding to Eva Braun and lunched with him before he committed suicide, but chose not to take the poison pills that Hitler reportedly gave her as a parting gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 28, 1997 | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...Riddler, the Penguin and Poison Ivy another Batman nemesis--the Photographer. Batman & Robin star GEORGE CLOONEY, on promotional duty in Australia, visited Melbourne's Hellfire Club, an S&M night spot. But his sojourn among the whips-and-chains crowd was interrupted by the activities of free-lance photographer Robin Dallimore. Clooney snatched Dallimore's camera but was unable to remove the film and asked Dallimore to do it. The photographer obliged, then tried to flee with it, angering Clooney, who, Dallimore says, "ripped my shirt and started to claw me," leaving scratch marks on his neck. Police declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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