He rejected tubular steel as too susceptible to glare and heat and cold and went on to experiment with the steam techniques that produced his familiar pale, satiny, bentwood birch furniture, so pleasing to the hand and eye.
But Dr. Levy, who isn't familiarwith the UCSF plans, said Framingham researchers want more information about how such techniques would affect privacy and other issues before including them as study tools.
These smaller firms hung on to plots, sometimes for decades, trying successions of innovative techniques to squeeze out every last drop of hydrocarbons and in the process becoming extremely familiarwith the geology of their fields.