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...stick" to how to do your own electrical wiring ("and when to get someone else to do it"). Yet, even in these "techy" passages, Owen stays interested and interesting. He explores the Keeler & Long paint factory to find our how paint is made, where porcelian blocks and round stones whine and grind pigments which pour into thousand-gallon mixers, and he visits the first American Sawmill, (Jamestown, 1625) to learn about the origins of lumber...
Much of the punishment, though, is voluntary. "Unfortunately," says Russ, an audiologist at Northwestern University's hearing clinic, "most of us unnecessarily increase the burden of noise we put ourselves under in our private lives." Homeowners endure the steady whine of everything from chain saws and power lawn mowers to vacuum cleaners and dishwashers. And the din of leisure activities can be just as dangerous as the roar from the factory floor. "We have laws to protect the hearing of workers in noisy workplaces," says senior scientist William Clark of the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis...
Thomas once said that civil rights leaders just "bitch, bitch, bitch, moan and whine." Years ago, he did complain publicly about discrimination, over an incident at the seminary in Missouri. Thomas told a friend, Jerry Hunter, now general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, that he was walking past a room when a television news flash proclaimed that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot. He heard a white student say something like, "It's about time you got the s.o.b." That day, Thomas told another friend, he decided that he would not stay at a school that didn...
...surveillance camera repairs this modern Circe: Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. The air is perfumed with the sweet fragrance of a floating garland of fresh gardenias. She plies a visitor with strong drink and cunning smiles. Within earshot of the murmuring fax machine and the constant siren's whine of the telephone, Circe reclines in audience on a couch of golden threads, and speaks...
...writing this letter, we do not wish to offend or whine. Rather, we offer our requests as small additions to our school's newspaper, additions we feel would help ensure a more informed student body and a more diverse sports section. Vince Marin '92 Alec Berg '91 and the Harvard Men's Volleyball Team