Word: benjamin
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Moreover, three of the prominent campaign workers are the three most visible gay activists at the College in the past five years: Michael G. Colantuono '83, Benjamin Schatz '81, and J. French Wall...
Smoke not only gets in your eyes; it is wasted heat. At least since Benjamin Franklin observed the phenomenon, owners of woodburning stoves have been trying to prevent all that expensive warmth from going up the chimney. Now a small Vermont company offers a modern solution: a fireplace-stove that uses a catalytic converter, similar to those found in emission-controlled cars, to re-burn the smoke and gases. The Shelburne Catalytic converter is 2 in. high, 8 in. in diameter and perforated like a honeycomb. It is coated with palladium, causing a chemical reaction that ignites the wood gases...
...Weight of History. The last new opera to enter the standard repertory was Puccini's Turandot in 1926. Certain later operas have enjoyed a succès d'estime, and some (like Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes) are even produced fairly often; but in general, the repertory of the past half-century has been a closed shop. Thus the Met has the Sisyphean task of producing and reproducing the same roster of familiar works. When the Met was young, many of today's warhorses were new; but now opera is in danger of becoming a dead...
...result is one of the most pleasant public gathering areas in a city that is full of them. What is new at the P.O., says the Pavilion's architect, Benjamin Thompson, who also designed Faneuil Hall's Festival Markets, is the freedom of choice. Says he: "We want you to have inexpensive food or expensive food; you can sit down or stand up, go upstairs or down. We want you to feel free...
Other scholars scheduled to speak at the service included Benjamin Brown, former director of the CFIA fellows program; Eugene Skolnikoff, director of the MIT center; and MIT professor Lucien...