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...eight-lane structure consists of a rubber surface supported by a rubber waffle understructure, resting on an asphalt base, which experts say gives it enough flexibility not only to increase speed but also to reduce fatigue and decrease the chance for injury...
Since then the governing boards have remained virtually unchanged. The Corporation oversees the University's finances and long-range planning and sets University-wide policy in its biweekly meetings. The Overseers are more ceremonial, rubber-stamping major Corporation decisions such as appointments and serving as a breeding ground for Corporation members. The members work primarily through a host of committees considering various areas of the University...
Throughout his 35-year teaching career and during his 15-year residence in the remote regions of the Amazon jungle--including some regions which are accessible only by plane or boat--he has pioneered several areas: rubber plant studies, crop development, narcotics and orchid study. He has also identified, classified and conducted experiments with approximately 24,000 plant species. In all, he has brought back to Harvard more than 48,000 varieties of plants from areas ranging from Mexico to Afghanistan...
...overwhelmed by black and dark green growths of such variety that it would have made a senior thesis just to classify them all. For a while I felt I was neglecting my academic duty by not calling the Biology Department to let them know what a good cultivation medium rubber sheets made...
...Kentucky, the sight of a horse giving birth is nearly as common as bluegrass. But last week when a 26-year-old mare named Kelly rolled over to foal on the clean straw of her specially lit, rubber-padded stall at a farm outside Louisville, the two attending veterinarians monitored the birth with more than customary anticipation. Reason: the newborn animal that later staggered uncertainly to its feet was a zebra...