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...Steam is delivered to Harvard rooms through four miles of pipes. When the weather turns cold, steam must be reintroduced to the pipes section by section, a process which takes two to three days and at least four engineers...
...First, according to type of food. For example, we'll make chicken blue and vegetables another colors," Berry says. "Second, according to how the steam table will look. If we have two browns and a red, we'll be sure that the red is in the middle...
...flourish of individual creativity, arrangement of dishes on the steam table is usually left to the individual houses...
...telling and serious point stands behind such graduation high jinks. In growing numbers, students in U.S. colleges and professional schools are looking to go abroad. Such wanderlust among the young is nothing new, of course; travel has traditionally been a means of letting off steam after years of cramming for exams -- a chance to see some sights, live out some romantic fantasies and pick up a cosmopolitan patina before going home to the serious business of life. The difference these days is that young people are leaving the U.S. not for pleasure or the burnishing of their education...
...wasn't until refrigerator-size boulders began hurtling down from above that the scientists sitting in an Anchorage, Alaska, control room started to get seriously worried. Until then the robot known as Dante II had successfully negotiated a steep, muddy descent and ambled unconcernedly through hot steam and poisonous gases. But even a 10-ft.-tall, 1,700-lb. automaton has its limits, and multiton chunks of rock moving at high speed were beyond Dante's. "That big one," said Carnegie Mellon University robotics expert John Bares, pointing nervously at a video screen after a rockslide, "would've wiped...