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During the first 100 hours of the new House, Pelosi has pledged, according to Newsweek, to “drain the swamp” of GOP muck by enacting all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations (why weren’t they enacted earlier?), raising the minimum wage, and promoting stem cell research...
Advising remains one of the greatest obstacles to the successful implementation of secondary fields. “Advising may turn out to be a significant drain on our resources if the number of students electing Government as a secondary field is large,” the government proposal reads. “Our concentration advising system is stretched as it is, with close to 600 concentrators...
...week, as a major backup in the pipes underneath Eliot House yielded flooding localized to the D, E, and F entryways, but, unfortunately, not to their bathrooms. Congestion from deep in the bowels of Eliot caused water, that made the Charles River look potable, to spring from the shower drains and fill the rooms of a few unlucky souls. The inhabitants fled to not-so-nearby Dunster House as their infected common rooms began to be decontaminated. An event such as this can only be interpreted as the will of a higher power for us to say something cute: Perhaps...
...swiftly flushed away all hope of an uncomplicated week for several Eliot House residents. Three entryways—D, E, and F—along with parts of the basement, were flooded when a major backup in the pipes underneath the House caused water to come up through shower drains. Caroline Silva ’08 said a liquid appearing to be clear water began rising from her drain at about 8 a.m., but “as [the liquid] kept coming out it got murky and brown colored.” She said that while it did not appear...
...public-rest-room hand dryer. Most dryers blow hot air on your hands to evaporate the water pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this fall and will probably find its way into...