Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reclusive student gropes for a buzzing alarm clock. He pushes the snooze button--which releases a weight, which pulls a pulley, which, through some complicated mechanism, starts the shower, lays out his clothes, pours milk on his cereal and plops his thick black eyeglasses on the bridge of his nose. Does this man reside in Canaday? Leverett Towers? No. If four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge...
...council threw their weight behind this vision early this month by allocating $25,000 to the proposed student center--the largest single allocation of funds in council history. The money was not given without strings attached. In order to receive it, the University has one year to hire an architect, create a planning committee that includes students and make a timetable for the building process...
DeNunzio and Killar-both ranked No. 7 nationally in their class and members of last year's All-Ivy League Team-enter the tournament seeded sixth in their respective weight classes and are considered top contenders for the national title...
There are six rounds to the tournament, with the semi-finals taking place Friday night and the finals on Saturday. There are 79 teams represented at the tournament, with 30 to 35 grapplers in each of the ten weight classes...
...twice as well as the patch alone. Smokers in the study were treated for nine weeks; after a year 16% of those using just the patch were smoke-free, in contrast to 30% who took Zyban and 35% using both. An added benefit of the combo: it can prevent weight gain--at least early on--that often accompanies quitting...