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...didn't act much like a man on the run. Not at first. Ten hours after last month's fatal bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., Eric Robert Rudolph strolled into a video store near his mobile home in the mountains of North Carolina, his hair still damp from a shower, and rented an action-adventure movie. He returned it the next morning and rented another tape. "He's always been very prompt," says clerk Dedra McGrady, "in returning his rentals...
...member Orchid L. Pusey '00 attended the event despite the damp weather...
Paul O'Byrne was a sickly child. He often had trouble breathing and woke frequently at night, coughing and wheezing. No medication or other treatment seemed to help, and when O'Byrne was six a Dublin doctor explained to his parents that, for some unknown reason, cold, damp climates worsened the child's asthma. He advised them to leave Ireland for a dryer, warmer place...
...Ireland, and, motivated by his childhood illness, became a pulmonologist and a leading asthma expert. "I wish I could speak to that Dublin physician now. He had great insight," says O'Byrne, who has learned that his early asthma attacks were allergic reactions to dust mites, which thrive in damp conditions...
Several first-years in Canaday last year were looking for a way to dry their damp clothes. Noticing that their halogen lamps gave off a great deal of heat, they came to an innovative solution...