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Post office officials in Cambridge suggested that students from the East hand in home addresses so that mail and packages can be forwarded lest it pile up here during the Christmas vacation...
...each day, until gradually ("Aw, I don't wanna") he lost his interest in lighting fires. Another boy had a mania for stealing keys. So Mrs. Calabrese bought a whole batch of keys for Harold and gave him one whenever he deserved a reward. Now Harold has a pile of keys and has stopped stealing them...
Plutonium is made in a chain-reacting pile, the trickiest, most hair-raising item of industrial equipment. Every interior detail of a pile must be right from the start; after the pile has been in operation, its innards are too radioactive to be tinkered with. The controls must be perfect, too, or the pile will destroy itself with a bang...
After the plutonium has been formed in the pile's uranium rods, it must be separated from the uranium by a chemical operation which is delicate and difficult, because the rods are fiercely radioactive. All the manipulations in the refining process must be performed by remote control from behind massive shields. Every bit of apparatus that has been used in refining plutonium is poisoned and dangerous to handle...
...feel that the present football policy at Harvard is unsound, for both financial and prestige reasons. If the administration continues its present policies, we will merely continue to pile up $100,000 deficits and losses to powerhouse teams around the country...