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...more a quality of life issue. There was an incident before the last one, I remember it very vividly. [Late one night] I was exhausted, but I ran to get pizza, came back and there was a fire alarm...There was hooting, screaming, everybody was freaking out, but the police came and turned off the alarm, so everybody went back inside. So I was like, 'Finally I can go to bed!' So I ate my little pizza, and got into bed. About an hour later, 2 or 2:30 in the morning, I hear this loud shout in the hallway...
...initial building alarm brought a Cambridge Fire Department truck and two Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) cars about 12:20 p.m, according to one officer. Once the problem was discovered, workers pumped the water...
Prompted by concerns from some residents who said they did not hear fire alarms, Harvard and city officials also checked the alarm systems before residents were allowed back into the building, said University spokesperson Joe Wrinn...
...found five to six people who said they heard the alarm but ignored it, which is obviously a problem," Wrinn said...
...best reason to keep the public Genome Project going, its scientists say, is that it is, well, public. Alarm bells rang last year when Celera announced that it had filed provisional patents on hundreds of newly discovered genes--a list that by last week had grown to include thousands of genes. Venter has pledged that he will eventually give away the completely decoded genome and make his money by selling the computer services needed to make sense of it. For now, however, he is charging $5,000 to $5 million a year to wade through his data...