Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like any self-respecting faculty club, TheHarvard Faculty Club is neither business norrestaurant. It is just as integral to theUniversity as, say, Widener Library, or thefantastic network of steam tunnels. The clubexists only to serve its members...
...goals include installing fiberglass windows to minimize heat loss, reducing inefficient use of steam, converting the Chemistry building to use chilled water from the central line and "teaching Harvard students, faculty and staff to be wise energy consumers...
...biggest heroes on this campus is tried-and-true conservative Professor Mansfield, who always manages to elicit some steam with his sometimes-well-thought-out, sometimes-off-the-cuff statements. Of all of the campus figures I've known in my ephemeral time at Harvard, he's the one who's done the most to make students think. (Of course, second prize goes to "Toaster Tutor" Noel Ignatiev, who criticized an appliance and left hundreds of discussions in his wake. And he's a Marxist...
...Peter Gabriel. The Genesis grad, whose music videos (Sledgehammer, Steam) have been pixilated eye-poppers, offers options galore in his CD-ROM Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World. First you put the singer's face together, which means choosing from a screenful of different mouths, noses, eyes and ears. "You'll know when you've got it," says Mr. Computer Potato Head while you give him a facial. This achieved, you must decide what to do next: Watch one of his music videos? Thumb through his old baby pictures? Choose various cuts by musicians from around the world...
...pressure on the President to keep up his image as "new Democrat." All have combined to make welfare reform a White House priority. "It has gone from a subject for think tanks to a grass-roots issue," says one top Administration official. "It has a big head of steam...