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Cambridge natives and students alike might well have mistaken Harold Olejarz for any other middle-aged commuter passing through Harvard Square yesterday afternoon, if it weren't for the rubber suit...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Elastic Man Appears in Yard | 11/14/1990 | See Source »

...Want to try again?" She holds her breath as the second hand advances and bites her cheeks while Stubs tickles her with a paper flower. But when Stubs gives the girl's mother a rubber clown nose in a red-nose "transplant," the tiny patient erupts with laughter. For a few moments, at least, Dorothy's mind is off the pain and trauma of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Treating The Funny Bone | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...were ambushed by a mob of 3,000 Palestinians positioned on the Temple Mount above, hurling rocks at the rate of nearly 300 a minute. Simultaneously, Palestinians attacked and burned a police post on the Temple grounds and stoned a nearby yeshiva. When police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, the Palestinians locked the doors to the Temple Mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Tragedy | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...scientists wear two pairs of rubber gloves while conducting experiments, but the hood provides an extra measure of safety by placing a downward flowing air current between the researcher and the samples. Thus, if any particle came floating toward the scientist, the current of air would push it down to a filter at the hood's bottom, preventing it from ever reaching the scientist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making Safety a Priority in the Laboratory | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

...benefits from a general awareness of the dangers of smoking. But this awareness often boils over into unjustified fury at friends lighting up the old cancer sticks. And just why is there no similar fury against the guy sucking down 16 ounces of beer through a funnel and a rubber hose...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard's Favorite Drug Habit | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

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