Word: silver
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That means the "Humanities Quad," scheduled to open in the fall of 1996 or whenever Harvard can find a builder with the proper amount of minority workers, plywood and silver-capped teeth, will no longer be centered around the Freshman Union. In fact, the new complex will include Boylston Hall, which will only become accessible to the Union area when the University finally completes a proposed Sky Tram...
...George W. Bush, 48, Republican candidate for Governor of Texas. The text -- part of a recent political ad -- is the handiwork of the campaign staff of incumbent Governor Ann Richards, who gained notoriety at the 1988 Democratic Convention when she said President Bush had been "born with a silver foot in his mouth." Though the ad is not entirely true, it neatly summarizes the problem facing George W. and his younger brother Jeb, 41, who last week became the Republican nominee for Governor of Florida. In their campaigns for public office they are clearly -- and unapologetically -- riding Dad's coattails...
...fact, Greek and Roman smelters spewed enough lead to contaminate the entire northern hemisphere, according to a study by France's Domaine University that analyzed lead preserved deep in Greenland's ice. The oldest-ever toxic fallout, long suspected by other scientists, began with pollution from Central European silver refining and other post-Bronze Age industry, and lasted 800 years. With 400 tons of lead found in Greenland alone, the damage rivals that of the 20th century's main culprit: leaded gasoline...
...times are changing. Look around you at all the silver hair here," said precinct warden Julia Thibodeau, who has been counting ballots for the city for 46 years...
...around 9 p.m., Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using...