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...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday, "A lot of people have been to UHS complaining of flue symptoms." This winter's outbreak, however, has not been as severe as some past major fluepidemics, he added, although he said he had no exact figures on the number of student victims...
...dampers. Before a furnace or boiler can heat a house, it first must heat itself. Only after the inside temperature climbs to about 130° F does the furnace begin transferring warmth. Yet whenever the system shuts off, much of the accumulated heat within the furnace escapes up the flue. The vent damper is an electrically operated plate that blocks the flue during an oil-or gas-burning furnace's off cycle, thus retaining the heat. The plate then rotates to an open position when the unit trips on again. Department of Energy studies show that dampers...
Mark Goodheart '81, president-elect of the Independent, wants a new house for his weekly, but he added, "I don't think it will fit in Santa's bag." But the "sports-writer"-turned-"executive" said he would settle for a fireplace with a flue that works...
...ballots, skewered on a long needle and string like a kind of combined ecclesiastical shishkebab and necklace, were thrust into the chapel stove along with black chemical lares to send up a dark "no Pope" signal to the waiting crowds in St. Peter's Square. But the flue above the stove was broken, and black smoke seeped through the chapel, partially obscuring Michelangelo's famous frescoes. For a quarter of an hour, the assembled Cardinals coughed, covered their mouths and rubbed their eyes until two windows were opened to clear the air. As the Cardinals broke for lunch...
...farmers never liked it. They wanted to change the name to "New Jersey flu," but Jersey officials felt state had enough problems. Now UHS says that the swine flue vaccine--without an alias, but two months late...