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...located on page 18 of the newspaper, just to the left of the U.S. temperature map. Eighteen pages earlier, the day's top headline proclaimed "U.S. Will Let Friends From Cuba Visit Elian," which was closely followed by the revelation that Jon Benet Ramsey's parents rejected a lie detector test...

Author: By Gernot Wagner, | Title: A Month in African History | 5/2/2000 | See Source »

...naps dried up ten people ago. Luckily, I'm male, and don't have to come into contact with the seat I'm standing over, and I indulge myself in what has to be done. I am, in the process, distracted by the warning label next to the smoke detector. "Tampering with the smoke detector," it reads, "is strictly prohibited." I take a sigh of relief, and am thankful of the warning. My uncontrollable urge to vandalize would otherwise have gotten the best...

Author: By C. MATTHEW Macinnis, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Not My Friendly Skies | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

When a smoke detector goes off in a House room, a signal is transmitted to the control center but does not immediately set off fire alarms in the rest of the building. If the alarm does not reset in a short period of time, however, control center computers trigger alarms in the rest of the building and activate the University's fire response plan...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holding Fire | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...week in a central dining hall with 65 other residents of all ages. Her apartment, like the others, looks out over a common lawn, gardens and playground. Here, there's always someone to talk to. When she needs help moving a couch or changing the battery in a smoke detector, neighbors are ready to assist. In return, she hems their clothes or makes applesauce for them from the community orchard. "I'm very comfortable here," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Class Communes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...lingo--shadowed Stanislav Gusev when he angled for his favorite parking spot near the State Department, then settled onto a well-worn bench. Whenever Gusev, 54, a technical specialist for the Russian intelligence service, fiddled with something in his pocket, the G's state-of-the-art radio-signal detector would come to life, indicating that a faint low-frequency transmission was emanating from a bug somewhere in the gray State offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Still Spy vs. Spy | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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