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...roofers worked to patch the leak in the skylight, Erdmann blamed the indoor deluge on cracks that develop between the glass and the panes when the building shifts. He said that the skylight has leaked for years and added that the glass should be removed and rubber seals installed...
...greatest honor in science was typical of the intensely private, no-nonsense researcher. Genetics is a science founded by a monk-19th century Augustinian Gregor Mendel-and McClintock is in every sense his disciple. For half a century she has labored in almost monastic solitude over her patch of Indian corn, or maize, much as Mendel did in his famous pea patch. In an era when most scientific work is done by large research teams, McClintock did not even have a laboratory assistant. ("Excuse me for being hoarse," she once told a scientist who stopped...
First National, which sits in the heart of the West Texas oil patch, made a fateful decision in early 1980 to tap the energy boom for all it was worth. The bank's management solicited big deposits from Wall Street investors and concentrated its loans in drilling and exploration ventures. By the end of 1981, First National had doubled its assets. But complications began to develop early in 1982, when oil prices started falling and energy companies slowed down their loan payments...
...first leeward reach and managed to make it 57 sec. by the fourth mark. But on the fifth leg, a 4.5-mile run with the wind dead astern, the lead and the Cup changed hands. Playing the wind shifts, Conner moved to the left and sailed into a patch of dead air. With sails almost slack, Liberty jibed back, but the Aussie superboat picked up two shifts of friendly wind and rounded the fifth mark with a 21-sec. lead. Conner battled desperately to recover on the last, upwind leg, going through 47 grueling tacks. Said the American skipper...
...Fifer, 1866, Zola remarked that Manet did not shrink from "the abruptness of nature": "His whole being bids him to see in patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending...