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...Faculty member in Boylston Hall notified the HUPD that a man claiming to be a UPS driver phoned her and asked her to the building's basement and retrieve a package. The Faculty member did not find anyone when she searched the basement. A colleague reported a similar call from a UPS driver at the same time...
...response from Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely '60, according to Del Deo, was "stunning": a key to the front door of Apthorp House, the Kielys' campus residence, and a room in the basement Del Deo could use at his discretion, 24 hours...
...pursue a Ph.D. in English, Connie Razza, 26, hardly expected to be a campus activist. But she also didn't expect a workload like this: for one undergraduate literature course this semester, Razza gives lectures, runs a discussion section, grades papers and exams, and holds office hours in a basement room where 40 other teaching assistants share 29 desks and one computer. For 30 hours a week of such labor, she earns about $1,400 a month--which doesn't even cover her rent, tuition, books and car payments. "It's not really part of my education," she says...
...also being hurt because softwaremakers aren't producing the power- and memory-sucking innovations that made consumers and businesses race out to upgrade their machines. The next big app, Microsoft's Windows 2000, is likely to require only a 300-MHz processor, already standard in today's bargain-basement PCs. So M. Lewis Temares, vice president of information technology at the University of Miami, figures that besides a few university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place...
...assistant began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks "Bakelite." The key turned out to be his "bakelizer," a heavy iron vessel that was part pressure cooker and part basement boiler. With it, he was able to control the formaldehyde-phenol reaction with more finesse than had anyone before...