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...Thursday, the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a false alarm at Lowell House caused by an overly sensitive smoke detector...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Tempered Enthusiasm | 10/9/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Cites Fire Hazard in Houses | 9/29/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Cites Fire Hazard in Houses | 9/29/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Cloak and Dagger | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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