Word: watt
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GINNY LUI SITS UNDER A 100-WATT light bulb, studying spoons. The spoons have gone through eight full cycles in one or another of a battery of 20 dishwashers; Lui's task is to examine each one for telltale signs of dirt. If she detects a speck, she must then decide just what sort of speck she has spotted. Is it gritty? Is it "medium soil" or "heavy soil"? When she runs through all the spoons, Lui turns to plates and cups and knives and glasses that have been emptied from the dishwashers, making the same inspections and rendering...
...Harvard students, who were selected from a field of 800 applicants, have chosen to study at Oxford, Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities...
...When they informed me of their decision, they told me by leaving a message on my answering machine," said Hong, who is concentrating in chemistry and physics and plans to study optoelectronics at Heriot-Watt University. "When I saw the blinking red light I knew what it was in reference to and I couldn't make myself take the message until later that night...
...applying this knowledge. We have to realize that is isn't necessary to join the EAC or any other group to make Harvard greener. Look around your room and take a measure of your impact. Do you leave you computer on all the time? How many of those 300 watt torchiere lamps do you own? Do you leave the lights on when you go out? Little things done by a few thousand of us have a huge impact...
Life or art? Both. Freud insists that he always lets his sitters take their own natural poses, rather than setting them up -- as well they might, given the arduous business of being painted for 80 sittings or more under the glare of the 200-watt bulbs in his studio. But whether by accident or design, flashbacks to past art do crop up regularly...