Word: processions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...move that will help wean soldiers from the plastic bottles, Milwaukee- based Aqua-Chem last month shipped Operation Desert Shield three state-of- , the-art water-purification units with a total value of nearly $1 million. Each of the mobile units, which use a process called reverse osmosis to convert salt water or contaminated water to drinking water, can produce up to 3,000 gal. per hour under battlefield conditions. Together the units can meet the needs of 10,000 troops...
...says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process off. In their normal form, both kinds of genes, working together, enable the body to perform the critical function of replacing dead or defective cells. But slight alterations in the genetic material, whether inherited...
...other attendance matters, the council voted to reinstate Jeffrey M. Perlman '93 of Mather House when the representative protested his expulsion. The executive board forgave Perlman's five absences because he had not been informed that he had won the election due to a miscount in the election process...
...instance, Princeton's dean of discipline, Kathleen Deignan, said that at her college, students are included in the disciplinary process. In marked contrast to Harvard, where students are currently excluded from the Ad Board, accused rapists at Princeton face a committee composed of two faculty members, a non-voting administrator and one student...
Still, administrators say connections may not hurt, but they do not guarantee funding. Although some professors bring better reputations than others into the federal grant competition process, Martin says scholars are "still judged on the basis of their qualifications...