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...enforce the unwritten rule of common consideration, some progress can occur if we monitor ourselves. Keep track of how many times a day someone whizzes past you from behind on a bike in the Yard holds a lengthy conversation with a friend in front of the soda machine you are trying to reach. Take note of how often you do something similar...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: We Need You, Emily Post | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...candidates. Babe Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys, let's go... Another original Hall of Famer, Honus Wagner, "just ate the ball up with his big hands, like a scoopshovel, and when he threw it to first base...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

...Bhopal plant had two safety devices that would operate automatically in case a tank ruptured. The first was a scrubber that would neutralize the highly reactive gas by treating it with caustic soda. If the scrubber failed to do the job, another mechanism would ignite the gas and burn it off in the air harmlessly before it could do much damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Night of Death: Bhopal | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...idea that one may find Prometheus chained to the dryer in a local laundromat, with the culture picking his brains as to which soda is better, is certainly droll; but it seems less an analysis of modern technology than a too plausible suggestion for Harvard's decadent undergraduate theater...

Author: By John P.O Connor, | Title: Notes From Blunder ground | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...announcement that gender was influenced by the timing of conception within the menstrual cycle and by the acidity or alkalinity of the female reproductive tract. A douche of vinegar, he contended, would confer an advantage on sperm bearing an X chromosome (for females), while a douche of baking soda would shift the odds toward the Y-bearing sperm (for males). Shettles' theory has now been generally discredited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Can Science Pick a Child's Sex? | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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