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...lectures, the distance between most senior faculty and students and the importance of graduate students in teaching courses means that any learning usually takes place through diffusion rather than symbiosis. And the generous graduation requirements of many departments means almost anyone can coast through Harvard without having to feel sweat on his brow...
...treasures. Just six people breathing inside a tomb for an hour can raise the humidity by 5 percentage points. And higher humidity provides a hospitable environment for bacteria, algae and fungi that grow on paintings. Sighs Hassan: "Three thousand people a day visit King Tut's tomb. They sweat. I can't prevent that, but it is destroying the tomb...
...skirts and pants. Topsville, a New York City manufacturer of children's sportswear, has signed a licensing agreement with Just Say No International, an antidrug foundation, that allows the company to design clothes using the group's slogan. Children will sport the "Just Say No" message on everything from sweat shirts to shorts, in English and several foreign languages. Prices...
...peacock. Europeans in the Middle Ages preferred the testes or urine of all sorts of animals. One Frenchman favored the flesh of a crocodile ground into powder and mixed with sweet wine ("Works miracles," he promised). Some Europeans taught that eating an apple that had been soaked in the sweat of your lover's armpit was a sure means of seduction -- provided, of course, that you had prior access to your lover's armpit...
...risked losing the technological edge represented by the plane's so-called source codes, which coordinate its electronic features. The doubters were joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch right up." After hearing the objections, Bush decided to reopen the agreement and press Japan for safeguards, including a clearer understanding of what the U.S. would gain from the project and the technological secrets it could withhold from...