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Meanwhile, as static conquest of the air, the skyscraper multiplied the site, extruding a patch of earth into a stack of pure property: the abstract, universal sign of capitalism. The standardization of its floors invoked the image of the machine, like the use of bodies as mechanical parts in Busby Berkeley's choreography or the precisely drilled production-line kicks of the Rockettes. Its soaring shafts, tapering setbacks and elaborate stacking (for this was the age of Rockefeller Center, not of the banal glass box) hinted at vastly oversized Mayan temples; the contrast between glittering surface and deep wells...
Before the game, the Zamboni clears the ice. There's something pure about clean ice. And it seems like an act of desecration when the referees pounce onto it just before the game begins and skate around, carving up the smooth surface...
...Memorabilia. This is the year to put Harvardiana under the tree. The Harvard Shop sells pure silk ties bearing the 350th logo for $25 and corduroy baseball caps...
Harvard Medical School itself witnessed a major case of fraud less than four years ago, when John R. Darsee admitted to a series of fraudulent published research findings on heart disease. The line between the pure realm of academic research and the "pressures" of profit and personal gain has perhaps never before been tested as it is now in this era of high-profile science--an era that has witnessed the rapid commercializing of biomedicine...
...menstrual cycles and no current sexual re- lationship. Although researchers are not sure whether the pheromones were inhaled or absorbed through the skin, the cycles of these women speeded up or slowed down toward 29.5 days. The irregular cycles of six women in a control group, dabbed with only pure alcohol, remained the same. In a second group, ten women who received female essence showed a significant trend toward synchronized menstrual periods after only a few cycles. A control group showed no such change...