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...Baekeland and others aiming to find commercial opportunities in the nascent electrical industry, that gunk was a signpost pointing toward something great. The challenge for Baekeland and his rivals was to find some set of conditions--some slippery ratio of ingredients and heat and pressure--that would yield a more workable, shellac-like substance. Ideally it would be something that would dissolve in solvents to make insulating varnishes and yet be as moldable as rubber. Starting around 1904, Baekeland and an assistant began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland...
...real goals of the campaign was to add Faculty members so that we could improve the student-Faculty ratio and so that we could add to the breadth and depth of subject matters that the Faculty can study," Smith said...
...might as well shell out a few extra bucks for credit insurance, which covers your debts in case of an accident or loss of job, right? Wrong. That, at least, was the conclusion of a Consumers Union report out last week, which said that credit insurance, judging by the ratio of benefits paid out to the cost of premiums, is largely a rip-off, bilking customers out of $2 billion a year. Many life- and homeowner's-insurance policies provide the same level of coverage, so put your wallet away...
...irrational and often contrary to one's moral and social duties. No culture in history has valued romantic love like our own, and yet there is every indication that this has not made for happier families or for more selfless individuals. The ancient Romans had the motto dux vitae ratio ("reason is the guide of life"). The claim that love can justify anything amounts to unconditional surrender before our own fickle passions and to the rejection of everything that moral thought should stand for. Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a physics and mathematics concentrator in Currier House...
...need not evolutionary but revolutionary change to public education," Gore said. He said the government should hire more teachers and reduce the national student-teacher ratio...