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...prohibition comes in the wake of fire inspections which were carried out in several houses over spring break. Cambridge fire officials determined that the grill must install a nearby fire alarm, which would be incorporated into Dunster House's alarm system, said L. Cameron Kitchin '92, the grill's manager...
Other neighbors said that the group of houses and apartments in the area had already experienced one break-in during this academic year and several others in recent years. One resident reported that he installed an alarm system after a daylight burglary several years...
...Kremlin's new approach is a far cry from the "partnership" with the U.S. that Gorbachev proclaimed during the heady days of 1989, when he pulled Soviet troops out of Afghanistan and liberated Eastern Europe. Some conservatives have concluded, with as much glee as alarm, that Gorbachev is returning to the bad old days of the cold war. That characterization is not just simplistic -- it misses the irony of what is happening. The emerging U.S.-Soviet interplay is in some respects a throwback to the even older days of razzle-dazzle realpolitik, before the era of a global, Manichaean struggle...
While the Iranians were ill prepared for a chemical attack, the allied forces are ready. Automated alarm systems deployed along the front will warn of chemical emissions. Any allied advance into Kuwait or Iraq will be accompanied by German-made vehicles called Fuchs. These bizarre-looking rovers, which have chemical probes sprouting from their armor, will move ahead of the troops, sniffing for trouble...
...reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama nuclear power plant, located 220 miles west of Tokyo, was operating at full capacity when an alarm sounded. Radiation levels in one steam generator soared to 1,250 times the normal level, triggering the emergency cooling system. Within seconds, tons of cold water began pouring in, averting a meltdown of the reactor core. But company officials acknowledged that malfunctioning safety valves had allowed a "small amount" of radiation to escape...