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Mrowka describes himself as a hitter who likes to "spray the ball to all fields" and hammer it into the alleys for doubles and the occasional home...

Author: By Justin R. P. ingersoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Every Day Second Baseman | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

Students don't take spray paint to Harvard's ivy and red brick, but in bathroom stalls and secluded study carrels closet graffitists make their statements...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: SCRAWLING GRAFFITI | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...have already reconstructed using the blueprint provided by the CF gene, could conceivably be goaded into working properly with the right medication. Alternatively, doctors could implant a healthy version of the CF gene in embryonic mice or goats, harvest the resulting protein from the adult animals' milk, and then spray the protein directly into patients' lungs. "Basically, we're talking about a four-legged manufacturing plant," said Dr. Robert Beall of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laying Siege to A Deadly Gene | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Think for a moment about the world's 1 billion refrigerators and its hundreds of millions of air conditioners. Picture mountains of foam insulation, seat cushions, furniture stuffing and carpet padding. Imagine streams of cleaning fluids, rivers of industrial solvents, wafting clouds of aerosol spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Patch a Hole in the Sky That Could Be as Big as Alaska? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing that many of their customers would leave unlabeled spray cans on the shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Patch a Hole in the Sky That Could Be as Big as Alaska? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

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