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...facilities for Harvard studies of human disorders such as AIDS, heart disease, and drug addiction. It also hosts 116 researchers from about 40 institutions all over the world, and gives them technical help with primate experiments. Outside researchers' work is funded by grants for their specific projects, while the upkeep of the center itself is paid for by a separate multimillion-dollar "core funding" grant from the National Institutes of Health...
...have managed to break, or at least cut down, on the habit. "I used to be really addicted," says Scott R. Panzer '88. Panzer plays on the Quincy House foosball ladder and is the House "czar. The czar is handpicked by the previous czar and takes responsibility for the upkeep of the table and running the ladder...
Under its University Research Initiative (URI), the Department of Defense (DOD) granted $3 million to the two schools last June for the purchase and upkeep of four pieces of electronic detection equipment, members of the Harvard Physics and Chemistry Departments said...
...synthetic sawdust-food will cost very little, according to Professor Bergius, as the raw materials are now waste poroducts. After the cost of the initial plant installation the upkeep will be small, as the materials used in the process are fully recoverable and can be used over and over again. Even the fuel for use in the plant is obtained from a waste by-product of the sawdust. The final result is a yield of fully 100 percent...
...Morgan Jr.'s private car, the Erie 400, is rolling again, partly owned by John Hankins, an attorney from Huntington, W.Va. Most private-car owners seem to be fairly affluent, though some admit to being drastically less affluent after upkeep and renovations. "Sooner or later the cost of maintaining a car gets to you," says Larry Haines, 71, a retiree who has spent nearly $40,000 on the Clover Colony in 14 years. Haines' car is a bargain compared with the Caritas, a 1948 Pullman bought for $10,000 three years ago by Clark Johnson, a Denver physicist. Some...