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...Jeanne Hood, director of operations for Au Bon Pain, said MIT students represent a large portion of the Kendall store's customers. Hood said she did not think the shooting would hurt the store's business...
...believe that it has [affected business]," Hood said...
...either lab, researchers must conduct their work inside a large box called a liminer flow hood. Since the blood sample under study may contain the AIDS virus or the more infectious hepatitis virus, researchers must put their hands through an opening in the hood to make sure all dangerous particles are contained within...
...scientists wear two pairs of rubber gloves while conducting experiments, but the hood provides an extra measure of safety by placing a downward flowing air current between the researcher and the samples. Thus, if any particle came floating toward the scientist, the current of air would push it down to a filter at the hood's bottom, preventing it from ever reaching the scientist...
When finished working in the hood, researchers must remove their outer pair of gloves and put them into a sterilizing machine called an autoclave. From there, waste goes into a bag that is periodically sent to a special site for incineration of laboratory waste...