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...great import--and he had a selfless urge to share his new knowledge. When Franklin caught the electricity bug in his 40s, "electrick fire" was a playful if puzzling entertainment. His experiments led him to startlingly modern conclusions. The "fire," he said, is a single "fluid," not the dual "vitreous" and "resinous" electricities postulated by European savants. It exists in two states: plus and minus (terms he coined, along with positive and negative, battery and conductor). Furthermore, he said, if there is an excess of charge in one conductor, it must be precisely balanced, as in double-entry bookkeeping...
...what really makes the Harry Potter series great is its dual nature. It's a fantasy wrapped around a nightmare, an unreal, escapist fiction with an icy core of emotional pain that is very real. In Phoenix, Rowling even kills off a major character, one of the people Harry needs most...
...Crimson just missed a perfect dual-meet season with narrow losses to Columbia, 12-15, in the opener, and Yale, 13-14, in the finale...
Headed into the event riding a 38-event dual meet winning streak, Princeton simply would not be denied...
HIGHLIGHTS Harvard breaks through by defeating Brown both in dual competition and at the Ivy Championship. Four Crimson swimmers are first team All-Ivy selections, with two more tapped for the second team...