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...things that students felt were missing from the official daytime celebration: professional bands, beer, and no little kids. Like Doggfest 2005, “Alternative Springfest” never happened. A series of unforeseen circumstances—and administrative opposition to the presence of liquor—sunk the event...
...first game ever played at the park featured the Red Sox and the Crimson on April 9, 1912, three days before the Titanic sunk...
...smoothly. Exulted Long: "We've got rock formations that will knock your socks off !" The investigations planned for the Sea-Link will ultimately involve 27 scientists. Some will survey the spawning habits and conditions of lake trout. Others plan explorations to the wrecks of five ships thought to have sunk between 1880 and 1918 for relics of shipboard life. Because of low water temperatures and the relative lack of oxidation, "the Great Lakes provide excellent preservation, even of shoes and leather," says Kenneth Pott, curator of the Lake Michigan Maritime Museum...
...investors who have sunk $1.5 billion into biotech start-ups, the journey from the laboratory to the marketplace has seemed agonizingly long. The industry was born in the 1970s, when scientists developed techniques for manipulating genes and converting bacterial and animal cells into tiny factories that could mass-produce drugs and other useful chemicals. When the first of the gene-splicing firms, led by Genentech and Cetus of Emeryville, Calif., went public in the early 1980s, Wall Street went wild. Genentech's stock jumped from $35 to $71 the first day. Biotech seemed like the next computer industry, and everyone...
Following “Poor Planning Sunk The Administration’s Proposal” (Letters, Feb. 28), we should like to make it clear that our suggestion at the Faculty Meeting on Feb. 22 (when we offered to try to mediate, and to identify and explain Faculty concerns to the President and to the Corporation) was in no sense an “administration proposal.” The idea was our own, and we had hoped to move the Faculty forward from the divisive situation that currently obtains. Nor, of course, were we trying...