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...fanciest booth, as judged by a HME committee, belonged to the Office of Information Technology. Also the largest, it had demonstrations of several computers and a satellite television system...
Second place, for the second consecutive year, went to the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), whose booth featured displays of several large household insects...
...Every year [the EHS] wins second place, and all they have is a couple of bugs," said Harvard University Police Sgt. Larry Fennelly, whose booth adjoined the EHS booth. The police booth demonstrated the prototype of a computer security system that emits a loud noise when the computer is moved...
...Patents, Copyrights, and Licensing booth advertised "invention advice" for 5 cents and featured a collapsible geodesic dome made of coffee-stirrers and dental floss a wind-up jumping mouse that went up in the space shuttle, and a coin bank whose skeletal, green hand emerges from inside to snatch pennies...
...pale hand had been stilled, its batteries worn out by too many demonstrations. "Poor fella," said David Stein, who manned the booth. "I didn't realize my poor animals would suffer...