Word: thinners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...packed his belongings into two travel bags, arranged his watch, keys and mobile phone on a bedside table and left a sealed envelope for a roommate to deliver to Hlavínová. At the approach of midnight, he snuck outside, doused himself with gasoline and paint thinner and set himself on fire. He was dead within several minutes. A World War II history buff who volunteered countless hours with the Red Cross, Másl, like Adamec, gave a mixture of reasons for his action. He was fiercely opposed to the war in Iraq, writing in his letter...
...took one that would prove crucially important--though until the day she died, she would never realize it. By increasing the humidity in her lab apparatus, she and graduate student Raymond Gosling discovered that DNA could assume two forms. When sufficiently moist, the molecule would stretch and get thinner, and the pictures that resulted were much sharper than anything anyone had ever seen. They called the wetter version the B form...
...cocoon of microwave radiation around our daily lives. For the time being, though, the findings are probably most worrying for parents of the 80% of European teenagers who use mobile phones. The Lund research team used young rats (12 to 26 weeks of age), because their developing brains and thinner, smaller skulls are comparable to those of the teenagers for whom phones are a must-have accessory. "Just don't give them to children," says Salford, affirming a message delivered in 2000 by the U.K.'s Stewart Commission on the health effects of mobile phones. So far, however, such warnings...
...although she did not have any data, Fox also wrote that transfers “continue to do very well” here at Harvard. There’s no reason to doubt this. Transfer students beat spectacular odds to arrive at Harvard—odds significantly thinner than those faced by high school applicants. Further, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-73—herself a former transfer to Harvard—told me yesterday that transfers are “some of our best and most interesting and most promising students...
...egalitarian spirit unbroken by success, Panino refuses to take reservations. Instead you’ll meet a well-dressed college graduate in her late twenties, conspicuously thinner than anyone else working there, pen and clipboard in hand. She’ll ask for your name and how many in your party and give you an estimate of the wait that is as attractive as it is wildly wrong...