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Harvard kicked off head coach Tim Murphy's first season in dramatic fashion Saturday afternoon at Columbia. After watching an 18-point lead dissolve in the solvent of a strong Lion running game, the Crimson mounted a heroic, 12-play fourth quarter drive to win the game...

Author: By Send D. Wissman, | Title: New Era Begins With Win | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Reardon said it does not appear thatcombustible materials within the store played arole in the fire. All flammable, solvent-basedpaints were removed from the store in 1990. Onlywater-based paints were in the store at the timeof the fire...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Tenant Group Calls Fire Suspicious | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...There is a possibility that they may have used an old solvent. Ethyl ether is something that shouldn't be kept around for a long time," Long said...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Lab Explosion Bloodies Two | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

...information that we're interested in is basically whether a charity is solvent, whether its assets exceed its liabilities, and whether its investment practices are consistent with fiduciary principles," Lund said. "We don't need to micromanage and we certainly don't want...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Harvard Evades Tax Disclosure | 3/26/1993 | See Source »

Fine-tuned by 4 billion years of evolution, protein chemistry has a lot to recommend it. To produce Kevlar, for instance, requires vats of concentrated sulfuric acid that must be maintained at high pressure. But spiders produce silk in the open air using water as a solvent. "I am absolutely fascinated," says University of Washington materials scientist Christopher Viney, "that such an incredible material starts out as a solution in water, and all the spider does is squirt it out through a small hole. In the process, proteins that were soluble turn into insoluble fibers. Now, isn't that amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copying What Comes Naturally | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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