Word: alarms
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...scramble from the shower after hearing a fire alarm and stand outside your dorm in flip flops (and hopefully a towel), no doubt you have considered fire alarms more of a prankster’s delight than a constructive use of your Sunday night. But in 2001 alone, The Crimson reported a fire in the Eliot House Grille and an unidentified naked man in a Cabot bathroom. Last year, a convicted rapist lurked the Mather hallways posing as a fire inspector, and a burst toilet pipe flooded rooms and destroyed ceilings in Cabot. So while fire alarms might just seem...
...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...
...door is propped open, alarm will sound” Rarely, if ever, true...
...Although FAS—the umbrella organization that funds the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—currently has a small surplus on its $950 million budget, it is expected to have a significant deficit starting next year. In his letter, Knowles sounded an ominous alarm, writing, “[I]nstitutional interventions will help, to be sure, but they must also be accompanied by individual efforts. Each of us can help…by a willingness to accept that some costcutting measures will be necessary for the health and progress of the Faculty...
It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: Your alarm malfunctions, you arrive to class late for the exam you didn’t know you had, and then you realize that...you forgot to register your Mathalympics flyer before posting it on the sandwich boards between the Yard and the Science Center. Luckily, registering is as easy: simply e-mail “sandwich@fas.harvard.edu.” During an interview with FM (conducted over e-mail, of course) last week, this enigmatic fas account divulged its deepest feelings on life, liberty, and lunchmeat...