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...sign on the dining hall door said it was “temporarily closed due to drain repair” and redirected students to Lowell House...
Senior Tutor Jim von der Heydt declined to comment by e-mail last night about the specific drain problem and when the dining hall would reopen...
Three vans from the Drain Doctor sewer and drain cleaning service were parked outside Winthrop at 6:15 p.m. yesterday as the dining hall sat empty...
...tube televisions and miniaturizes it: instead of one big electron gun exciting all the phosphors on a screen in sequence, millions of little electrical nodes do the same thing simultaneously. The result is picture contrast and response time that outstrip plasma and LCD with a much lower power drain. Toshiba says that production costs over time could make SED TVs relatively affordable, but the first, a big-screen set scheduled for launch this year, will cost a wheelbarrow of cash filled to an as-yet-undisclosed height...
...kidneys too play a big role. The urinary and renal systems govern not only the quantity of water that is kept or dumped by the body but also its composition. Drain or retain too much sugar, potassium or countless other essential components, and the chemistry of the whole body goes awry. One of the things the kidneys keep an especially close watch on is salt. The more sodium you hold, the more water your body retains, storing it first in the bloodstream and then off-loading it into tissues. When your system gets waterlogged, overfilled vessels feel the strain...