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Eliot House Master Lino Pertile sent an e-mail last night to House residents saying that anyone known to have come in contact with Timothy L. Lyons ’04 since March 15 has been contacted and advised to take antibiotics as a precaution. Pertile wrote that he released Lyons’ name to the House community with his family’s permission to ensure that students can “seek appropriate medical advice...
Gross said last night that he did not think the disease would spread to other students, and the six to eight roommates and friends who were in close contact with Lyons were already being treated with antibiotics...
...disease is spread through very close personal contact and, though first-year college students are at a “moderately increased risk” of contracting meningitis, average college students contract it at a lower rate than 18 to 24-year-olds as a whole, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Noise can be controlled to an extent, depending on the source. Some of the biggest sources of ambient noise are highways and roads, but the cause is less honking horns or gunning engines--though those play a role--than tires hitting pavement. Pliable rubber making contact with asphalt doesn't seem as if it would produce a lot of noise but in fact it does, and in a lot of ways. As any spot on the tire strikes the highway, it hits with the thunk of a little rubber hammer. Also, the patch of tire that's in contact with...
...that comes out 5 min. later) and advised consumers to flush the tap for 1 min. But Edwards tested 1-min.-draw samples and found that some contained more lead than the first-draw samples. Why? Because of its position in pipes, 1-min. draw tends to be in contact with the most corroded plumbing materials. Just as Edwards recommended, the agency now warns consumers with lead service lines to run the tap for 10 min. before using water for drinking or cooking...