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...steam trap" can result when furnaces are initially activated, according to Charles M. Gordon, area supervisor for Facilities Maintenance. Campus furnaces were first turned on during last week's cold spell...
...Fort-Philippe, 1890, mediate between solidity (the molecular structure of the skin of paint) and transparency in a way that is unique in 19th century painting, and as a result they can absorb and reward all the contemplation the eye can give them. The port, under its light-suffused spell, its unpeopled high-summer sleep, becomes a subject of reverie but not a fantasy, anchored in the real by such declarative touches as the iron bollard placed dead center in the foreground, yet located in the ideal as well by Seurat's profound attentiveness...
...cluster of totally independent armies would spell trouble for everyone. The Russian republic's overwhelming military might would intimidate others in the confederation. Ethnic conflicts, especially in the south, would be more likely to escalate to all-out war. And a Russian-dominated central army might invite a replay of the disaster that has befallen Yugoslavia, where the supposedly federal army is in reality a Serbian army...
...more than women seem to draw on anger as a tool, but it is decidedly double-edged. In a sport like golf, which depends on fine motor control, rage can spell disaster. In football, anger may help power up a blitzing lineman, but it can impair a quarterback's judgment...
...pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables old MS-DOS software to work much like a Macintosh. That has also alienated Apple, which contends that Microsoft stole elements of Windows from Macintosh programs. The new IBM-Apple venture, which will develop its own software, could spell the end of OS/2 and any remaining relationship with Microsoft. "We're flabbergasted," says Steven Ballmer, Microsoft's senior vice president. "This does not bode well for future cooperation between IBM and Microsoft...