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...Lavietes Pavilion, which features an extremely high ceiling and expansive space behind the backboards and on the sidelines, the Lee Amphitheater is an older and more traditional gym, with a claustrophobic, sound-amplifying atmosphere enhanced by the proximity and steep angle of the wooden bleachers, which easily transform into potent noisemakers...
...there’s space available in a class, they let you in.”At Harvard, Marshall says he took courses on the history of medicine and the biology of cancer. In the history of medicine course, he says he learned about the discovery of benzopyrene, a potent carcinogen, which was first detected when chimney sweeps in the 19th century developed scrotum cancer with unusual frequency after sitting on their brushes to clean inside chimneys.In his biology of cancer course, Marshall says he learned that benzopyrene, like all compounds produced from burning organic materials, is hydrophobic.He says these...
...those who sacrificed their lives at war for Japan and its Emperor would live forever, venerated as gods, at Yasukuni. Soldiers, pilots and seamen heading into battle would frequently bid farewell to each other by saying, "See you at Yasukuni." Since 1945, Yasukuni has remained a quiet but potent and enduring symbol for the country's die-hard nationalists. Since 1959, priests at Yasukuni have quietly enshrined more than 1,000 convicted war criminals, not just Class-A criminals such as Hideki Tojo, the wartime Prime Minister, but also hundreds of military men who personally committed atrocities, ordered them...
AgION's microbicide is silver, a metal long known to have potent anti-infective properties yet lacking the tendency of many organic agents to generate resistance. Trouble is, silver atoms have to be in an ionic (charged) state--as they are in solutions of silver salts--to kill microbes. Pure silver doesn't release enough ions to pack much disinfecting punch. Its salts, on the other hand, wash away too easily...
...PREDATOR The flimsy, lightweight Predator flies low and slow but is one of the military's most potent weapons...