Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.

All the environmental impact reports and scientific studies have shown that the Cornell lake source cooling system has not yet had and will not likely have any measurably significant environmental impact.

This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell.

In May 2006, it was announced that a large search effort led by the Cornell team had been suspended for the season with only a handful of unconfirmed, fleeting sightings to report.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010, pp 23 </ ref > The paper, which was published by the Writers ’ Union, had been filled with party loyalists under Novotny.

In 1994 Marc Ewing created his own Linux distribution, which he named Red Hat Linux ( Ewing had worn a red Cornell University lacrosse hat, given to him by his grandfather, while attending Carnegie Mellon University ).

However, as a young carpenter working in Syracuse, Cornell had been twice robbed of his wages, and thereafter considered Syracuse a Sodom and Gomorrah insisting that the university be located in Ithaca on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake.

A 2006 study done by Cornell researchers, the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy and the Chinese Academy of Science on Bt cotton farming in China found that after seven years these secondary pests that were normally controlled by pesticide had increased, necessitating the use of pesticides at similar levels to non-Bt cotton and causing less profit for farmers because of the extra expense of GM seeds.

Gamow had the name of Hans Bethe listed on the article as " H. Bethe, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York " to make a pun on the first three letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta and gamma.

The town soon had several grocery stores, a bank, four churches, a stockyard, a harness shop and a newspaper the Cornell Journal.

The company that was developing the property had not been able to come up with a good name for the place and Cornell suggested Oak Grove after a crew ate lunch in a stand of oak trees in the northwestern part of the tract.

In early 1959, he accepted an appointment at Cornell University, which had offered him the opportunity to set up an interdisciplinary unit for radiophysics and space research, and take charge of the Department of Astronomy.

In the months following Wood's death, Gossard and Ament, and Eddie Vedder would be approached by Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell ( who had been Wood's roommate ), and asked if they would be interested in recording a single containing two songs he had written in tribute to Wood.

Cornell University economist Robert H. Frank, author of Luxury Fever, has remarked, " When people were denouncing yuppies, they had considerably lower incomes than yuppies, so the things yuppies spent their money on seemed frivolous and unnecessary from their vantage point.

Meanwhile, Ezra Cornell had bought back one of his bankrupt companies and renamed it the New York & Western Union Telegraph Company.

Eventually nine universities ( Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Rochester and Yale came together, and on 31 January 1947, a contract was signed with the Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ), which had replaced the Manhattan Project, that established the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Charles Walcott at Cornell was able to demonstrate that while pigeons from one loft were confused by a magnetic anomaly in the Earth it had no effect on birds from another loft a mile away.

" There had been a confrontation at Christmas 1965 between the Krays and the Richardsons at the Astor Club, when Cornell, an associate of the Richardsons, referred to Ronnie as a " fat poof ".

The government had many psychiatrists and doctors examine Vincent including Thomas Gutheil from Harvard University, Donald Klein from Columbia University, William Reid from University of Texas, Wilford Van Gorp from Cornell University, Stanley Portnow from New York University, and Abraham Halpern from New York Medical College.

Joseph Cornell was born in Nyack, New York, to Joseph Cornell, a well-to-do designer and merchant of textiles, and Helen TenBroeck Storms Cornell, who had trained as a kindergarten teacher.

" However, tensions within the group arose during the sessions, with Thayil and Cornell reportedly clashing over Cornell's desire to shift away from the heavy guitar riffing that had become the band's trademark.

During this time, there was a rumor that Cornell had checked himself into drug rehabilitation.

He continued an association with Cornell as a special lecturer from 1893-1895.

White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921.

While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig, who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times.

Cornell could not say with absolute certainty that the sounds recorded in Arkansas were made by Ivory-bills.

They conclude that it lacks certain features of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and has others consistent with the Pileated ( Sibley at al., 2006 ) The original Cornell research team stood by their original findings in a response article in the same issue of Science, stating:

The search, led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with support from Audubon Arkansas, stretched from November through April when ivory-bill activity would be highest and a lack of leaf-cover permitted clear views through the dense forest .…

Cornell University did not field a search team in Arkansas during 2008 – 2009, but focused on mangrove habitats in southwest Florida, with a later visit planned for South Carolina.

Russ graduated from Cornell University, where she studied with Vladimir Nabokov in 1957, and received her MFA from the Yale Drama School in 1960.

In that same year, Brando played the role of Marchbanks with Katharine Cornell in her production's revival of Candida, one of her signature roles.

He then was a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies with O. Mathias Ungers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, followed by studies at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.

OMA New York: the office in Manhattan Koolhaas is leading by Shohei Shigematsu is now designing an extension of Cornell University ( NY ), 111 First Street, a high rise residential building and hotel in Jersey City ( NJ ) and a high end residential tower with CAA screening room at One Madison Park in NYC.

For this reason, one main hypothesis was later replicated in a controlled experiment by Cornell sociologist Robb Willer, who self-published the results in his homepage ; the report was not published by a peer-reviewed journal, which returned it with a " Revise and Resubmit " advice.

On the evening of July 2, 1915, Eric Muenter, an anarchist and onetime German professor at Harvard and Cornell universities, who opposed American support of the allied war effort, broke into the Senate chamber, laid dynamite around Marshall's office door, and set it with a timer.

Nunn developed a keen interest in education as part of his electrical power companies, and in conjunction with Cornell University built the Telluride House at Cornell in 1909 to educate promising students in electrical engineering.

The result was that four supercomputer centers would be chartered ( Cornell, Illinois, Princeton, and San Diego ), with a fifth ( Pittsburgh ) added later.

In 1973, to address the issues with analog clocks, Bruce Cheney, a Cornell University Electrical Engineering student and chess player, created the first digital chess clock as a project for an undergraduate EE course.

* Shimon Peres speaks at Cornell University – " A Conversation with Shimon Peres "

Shearer also took on another play popularized by Cornell in Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) ( her first film of the 30s to lose money ) and Marie Antoinette ( 1938 ) ( a budget of almost $ 2, 500, 000 was too great for the studio to expect a profit ), though their elaborate sets and costumes helped make the films immensely popular with audiences.

Working with illustrator Laura Cornell, Curtis has written a number of children's books, all published by HarperCollins Children's Books.

The Wolverines finished the meet with 24 points, trailing only Cornell ( 30 points ) and Yale ( 24-1 / 2 points ).

He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology, pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1954.