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...developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath. But then again, what 100-year-old lady does not have an age spot here and there...
...Amid a sheath of statistics, pepperoni pizza, and the overstuffed armchairs in Lowell House's JCR, the key organizers of this year's first Harvard-Radcliffe Blood Drive met last night to discuss why their campaign strategy had gone awry...
...word and gesture so that it plays for a modern audience. In Much Ado Hands digs deep into a bag that must be marked TRICKS THAT WORK. A courtly messenger declaims his prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only...
...when French Chemist Poulletier de la Salle first purified the soapy-looking yellow-white substance. Despite its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential to life: it is a building block of the outer membrane of cells, and it is a principal ingredient in the digestive juice bile, in the fatty sheath that insulates nerves, and in sex hormones such as estrogen and androgen. Although most of the cholesterol found in the body is produced in the liver, 20% to 30% generally comes from the food...
...Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates. During the installation of the temple's original iron reinforcing rods, the ancient builders used a form of rust-proofing that has been effective for two millenniums: they wrapped the rods tightly in a sheath of pliable lead, which gave them room to expand and contract, and kept away rust-producing moisture. Unfortunately, later restorers did not seal their irons. So the new rods installed near the turn of this century have already rusted. Worse, as the bare iron expands and contracts with changes in temperature...