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...first stop is makeup. A short funky British woman lunges at my face with a powder brush. I instinctively recoil in horror. I don't like to share cosmetic products. I try to protest that my natural complexion is so smooth and vibrant that I don't need makeup. Spice Girl will have none of it and proceeds to plaster my countenance with blush and bacteria...
...Heading left down Broadway took me past a park, a Revolutionary powder house, and to a gigantic traffic rotary, where I stood trembling in front of drivers who must have been imported from Cambridge just for the sake of making Medford dangerous. I finished my donut. I darted across...
...chambers, he found that a rocket could indeed fly in a vacuum, thanks to Newton's laws of action and reaction. Fooling around with basic chemistry, he learned, most important, that if he hoped to launch a missile very far, he could never do it with the poor black powder that had long been the stuff of rocketry. Instead, he would need something with real propulsive oomph--a liquid like kerosene or liquid hydrogen, mixed with liquid oxygen to allow combustion to take place in the airless environment of space. Fill a missile with that kind of fuel...
...rape cases discussed in the Perspective article were a crucial jumpstart on this issue," says Nancy D. Meakem '99 a member of Coalition Against sexual Violence (CASV). "But really, the issue was powder keg dying for some of jumpstart. Rape, sexual assault, counseling and student health resources need to be discussed beyond these two cases...
...thing, the fastidiously groomed slopes of ski areas are no longer sufficiently challenging to a growing number of the nation's 13.8 million skiers and snowboarders. They are heading for the unpatrolled peaks of pristine powder to experience the splendor of the outdoors as early explorers and natives saw it. In doing so, they're creating new business for ski areas and for equipment makers, whose products can help them reach the unreachable--and even prevent disaster...