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...Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) was designed to provide steam, chilled water and electricity at a savings to the Medical School and other medical institutions in the area. Harvard officials have said in the past that the economic feasibility of the plant hinges on its ability to generate electricity. Harvard has put forward $50 million for the facility, but has not yet assessed the possible losses should the electric generators be completely rejected, Lashman said...
...comprise the Harvard Corporation finished drawing up their position in the old President's House and walked outside, they could not help but feel a little nervous, for less than 100 feet away more than 1000 students were holding an anti-apartheid rally. In the hope of taking the steam out of the protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated in a peaceful...
...next to patriotic graffiti of World War II (BUY WAR BONDS, REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR). Hermie scratched his name and the date when he first started to work at Brown's Mill - 1939. Over the years he did just about everything, from repairing spinning frames to caring for the steam turbines. Even after the mill, in its last metamorphosis as a leather tannery, closed down five years ago, Hermie stayed on as maintenance man. Now, on a lower floor crowded with alternative vehicles (from steam cars to electric motorcycles), Hermie's project within The Project is to adapt...
...snapshot of her own father with the four-legged beasts. A chimp with a degree in Yerkish or Ameslan exhibits the ability to form concepts from his store of word symbols. The Indian who called a gun a "fire stick" or the remote tribe who named an airplane "steam chicken" seems to have employed a conceptual process similar to the chimpanzee who termed a duck a "water bird" or a radish "cry hurt fruit...
...before much of Kolwezi was awake. Although there had been rumors in Shaba for weeks that trouble was imminent, the city was defended by no more than 300 Zairian troops. Recalled Belgian Civil Engineer Freddy Wauters, 39: "At first I thought it was soldiers letting off a bit of steam." But then the rebels appeared and demanded to know whether Wauters was French. They were looking, as it turned out, for Moroccan and French "mercenaries" who had thrown back the F.N.L.C. last year. Several Libyans working in Kolwezi were executed because rebels mistook them for Moroccans...