Word: labs
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...students in Cabot Science Library burning the midnight oil, the white marble buildings of Harvard Medical School (HMS) represent something of a holy shrine--and institution to be fantasized about over problem sets and lab reports...
Calese worked as a photo lab technician and anassistant in the meteorology section...
...sophomore] fall, I was taking electronics courses which we ordinarily would have taken much later, as seniors," Slichter recalls. "And all the graduate students had disappeared, so I had a job grading lab reports for [courses I had taken the previous summer...
...bugs' aversion to frost has kept them out of the Midwest and Northeast, but even that may change. Tim Lockley, an entomologist at the Agriculture Department's fire-ant lab in Gulfport, Mississippi, says the ants have now settled in the mountains of east Tennessee, where as much as 7% of the population survived the especially frigid winter of 1993-94. Says Lockley: "It's just amazing how adaptive they...
Still worried about the pesticides' impact on the environment, government scientists think they may have a better answer to the fire-ant menace. Patterson's lab at the Agriculture Department is studying a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs right on the fire ant's body. The fly maggots then eat their way into the ant's head and eventually sever the head from the body. Best of all, the fly seems to attack only fire ants. If laboratory and field tests show that the fly is indeed safe to use, says Patterson, the natural ant killer could...