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...upright position created far too much stress, says Wade. "After that, the final sinking could be easily predicted. Its death warrant was signed." And the Spanish authorities, he contends, exacerbated the effects of what should have been a minor oil spill by refusing to give the damaged vessel permission to dock in a sheltered area. "It leaked over 290 km of coast instead of in a small bay in which it could have been contained," he says. ABS, says Wade, has reviewed its records on the Prestige and "can find nothing in the paper trail that would raise any cause...
...will miss the fabled carousing of past years, to be sure, and we loath being told what we can’t do. But we are not going to stay home—or stay sober—because we must find a new “beer vessel.” Harvard students are pretty creative, and we will find a way to have a great time, trashed if we like, kegs or no kegs...
...like that, and we are smart enough to realize that Lewis’ fire-and-brimstone language about the dangers of drunkenness, although pegged to kegs at Harvard-Yale weekend, condemns intoxication regardless of the vessel or the occasion. The keg ban only drops the speed limit from 70 to 65 one weekend a year, to borrow Lewis’ metaphor, but he seems to believe that 70 is deadly all the time and 65 is never much better. It may prove to be a warning shot in a more pivotal battle over the definition of responsible drinking...
...judges suggest multi-stage fermentation for Haller. “Get yourself a second vessel,” Meyers says. DeBisschop prods Haller to keep brewing. “Do this beer again, because I think you’re really on the right track here,” he says. All three judges are very impressed when Haller informs them that they’ve been drinking his inaugural effort. Haller looks to keep making suds. “They’re pretty knowledgeable, gave me some ideas,” he says immediately after leaving the judges?...
...weeks after the injections, the researchers found that damaged tissue had significantly regenerated in both groups of mice. The regrowth was especially pronounced in the mice injected with cells containing the blood vessel growth factor gene...