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...boats, they can be used in heavy seas, where they can be strung together and dropped over oil concentrations. Unlike straw, another natural absorbent, the pillows are easy to retrieve with a long-handled pole or a net rigged between two trawlers. They are very light, easy to stack and transport to spill sites. After use, they can be buried or burned without causing toxic smoke...
...anticrime packet consists of an electronic detonator, a tear-gas canister and dye, all packed together so tightly that they fit inside the carved-out center of a stack of bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within...
...work up. The tendency to view life as though it were play-acting often surfaces in actors' words. Writes Gene Tierney at the end of Self Portrait: "If my life had been a movie, would a director have cast Gene Tierney to play the part?" Writes Robert Stack at the end of Straight Shooting: "In some ways my life was like a movie, full of twists and turns...
...object, the book,itself," insists Bond. "Some things you can only learn from the actual object that cannot be conveyed by printed descriptions orphotographs." Of the elusive Hollis gifts, many of which are on displayin Houghton's main lobby, Bond adds: "I keep pulling them out ofWidener stack all the time: they are specially bound, and at this point I can sight a Hollis at 50 paces...
Nozick, like the rest of the Faculty, will not officially learn his next year's salary until the dean's office mails out a stack of letters on June 30. A Faculty member who wishes to learn his '82-'83 salary before then--to include it in a grant proposal, for instance--must obtain special permission directly from Rosovsky, financial officials say. If, for some reason, a professor calls the dean's office to check on the figure for his current salary, the office will hang up and ring him back, to make sure the call did not come from...