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What sold Harvard and the other institutions on the notion of their own power plant was the concept of "total energy"--a new way to provide cheap and reliable power by producing electricity as a by-product of steam generation, Harvard officials claim. So 11 medical-related institutions in the area, collectively known as the Medical Area Service Corporation (MASCO) threw their chips in with "total energy" and decided to build their own plant in Mission HIll...
...volunteered a plan where an estimated $300,000 in costs per year could be shaved off the project, just enough to put RTH over the top. It was a simple suggestion--but one that was difficult for RTH to refuse. Harvard offered to supply the housing project with free steam, chilled water, and cooling from its own power plant, thus inextricably linking the two. RTH accepted early this year. With that fait accompli, RTH had no choice but to work side by side with Harvard against other Mission Hill residents to get the power plant built as fast...
...view of time as something methodical, a set of divisions into hours and minutes whose very measure could regulate a calculus of utility and the allocation of energies. It was a view that, in its own way, was radically new. As Lewis Mumford observed, "The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." After consulting Gulliver on the function of his watch, the Lilliputians came to the conclusion that...
...first two months I studied constantly. I'd been going full steam and getting B+s. The first thing I did was slack off on my work. My grades in Soc Sci 2 slowly dropped down...
...afternoon that Hoffa vanished, both Giacalone and Provenzano were on prominent display elsewhere. Tony Jack made an appearance in the steam rooms of the Southfield Athletic Club near Detroit, and Tony Pro hobnobbed with Teamsters at union locals in Hoboken...