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...catalyst without this quality can only distinguish between two completely different molecules in the same way that a rubber ball feels differently into a hand or foot, but fits the same in the left or right hand...

Author: By Halton A. Peters, | Title: Jacobsen Reaches for the Stars in Chemistry | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

...President. "The control of the purse [by Congress] is the foundation of our constitutional system of checks and balances," says Senator Robert Byrd, who is legendary for directing wasteful spending to West Virginia. Byrd predicts that Presidents will use the measure to blackmail members of Congress into rubber-stamping White House plans out of fear for their own pet projects. That worry isn't entirely off the wall--Presidents play politics too--but it's more likely that Congress will adopt another pattern. To solidify support at home, members can be expected to fund all kinds of junk, secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST: NEW POWER FOR THE PEN | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...OSVALDO FERNANDEZ AND LIVAN Hernandez, the distance between Cuba and the U.S. is not the 75 miles of the Caribbean, and not the almost 40 years of bitter and sometimes deadly conflict. It is the 60 ft. 6 in. between the rubber and the plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA'S ARMS SHIPMENT | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...urge more faculty members to break out of their cocoons in William James, Littauer, Robinson, Jefferson, Boylston and Warren House. Without the involved participation of many informed faculty members, the Faculty Council will become even more of a rubber stamp for the decisions of a sometimes misguided administration...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Faculty Apathy Is Disappointing | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Robert E. Haines, one of 22 candidates listed on the Republican presidential ballot, stumped for votes at the hotel, as did a man who identified himself as "The D. Scusting." Mr. Scusting wore a black rubber boot atop his head, in addition to a leopard skin costume, and claimed he had the endorsement of Elvis, former President Richard M. Nixon, and deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Manchester Hotel Center of Nation's First GOP Primary | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

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