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...Thursday, the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a false alarm at Lowell House caused by an overly sensitive smoke detector...
Saltonstall said freshman dorms, and rooms in the Law School, Divinity School, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have been wired for the smoke detector system...
Abernathy said Harvard's is an electrically powered detector system, which is slower to install, but more reliable than the battery-operated system required under minimum city standards...
...mushrooming firms offer a bewildering variety of services and devices (see box). Some merely sweep for electronic bugs and telephone taps several times a year. Others conduct prehiring investigations, give lie-detector tests, place undercover agents on assembly lines and even scrutinize potential customers...
...caresses her right hand, then presses his thumb sharply down on her wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says with a shrug, "but at least I don't have herpes...