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...when a mostly empty fuel tank gets as hot as TWA 800's was (about 145[degrees] at takeoff, because of the 400[degree] exhaust thrown off by air-conditioning units a foot away), the electrical charge necessary to detonate the resulting fumes is roughly a quarter of the smallest spark you feel when scuffing your foot on a rug. Said safety-board officer Peter Goelz: "We had no idea how little energy it took to cause an explosion." Hall remarked, "I for one don't see how every ignition source can ever be eliminated." The obvious conclusion: instead...
...Student group funding: While Harvard boasts the largest university endowment in history and is undertaking the largest university fundraising campaign in the country, its funds for student groups remain among the smallest in the Ivy League...
...mood of the crowd was festive, if not overly rambunctious. Although it was the smallest Game crowd since World War II, there was no absence of shenanigans...
Calling Jane's Addiction a bastion of integrity makes them sound like an American motor vehicle company, but the sentiment rings true, from the smallest details to the big shebang. Part of a tour scrupulously dubbed a "relapse" and not a reunion proper--Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea fills in ably for original guitarist Eric Avery--the band overcame the dead-end venue of the Gosman Center at Brandeis to produce frankly beautiful wide-open soundscapes charged through with Perry's idiosyncratic timbres...
...represent one of the smallest precincts in the state, but State Rep. Paul C. Demakis '75 (D-Boston) has his sights set on the big issues...