Word: alarms
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Late yesterday afternoon fire alarm bells rang at 1737 Cambridge Street, forcing the last students still around before break to stream out of their classes in the Knafel Building of Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) and mill about a fire truck while firefighters inspected the building...
...false alarm was the latest event in a series of minor frustrations that have dogged users of the CGIS buildings ever since they opened at the start of the semester. But despite months of mild annoyances including temperature complaints, some uncompleted facilities, and ongoing construction work, most students and faculty members seem resigned to the situation...
...It’s growing on me slowly. Clearly, when they opened it, it wasn’t really ready yet,” he said. “Pretty consistently there was work going on throughout the day, but it wasn’t anything major... [The] fire alarm shenanigans were the first real technical problems I’ve experienced, although there is always a very loud banging in a pipe in the basement when I have class there...
...only artists who released discs with remixes of entire albums were…Linkin Park?But now, it’s the “indie” thing to do! Earlier this year, Bloc Party put out a sliced-and-diced “Silent Alarm,” Death From Above 1979 gave the thumbs-up to a supefluous retooling of their last jaunt, and now, everyone’s favorite genius-posing-as-a-poseur, Beck, has jumped on the remixwagon. The results are tepid, at best.“Guero” was unjustly derided...
...department also is responsible for bringing extra help to Cambridge in the case of a large-scale fire or emergency—a 10-alarm fire, for example, requires aid from all of Cambridge’s surrounding cities. Dispatchers then contact emergency workers from nearby towns to move in and help. This system is dubbed “mutual aid.” Each time another city’s personnel comes in to help, workers from cities even further afield must move in to take their position...