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Just before nine every morning Anna Vasilikhina leaves the fourth-floor apartment where she has lived for more than 30 years - and where her husband was murdered by looters 14 months ago - and walks to her job as head nurse in a nearby children's clinic. Like nearly every other building in Grozny, her five-story block was largely destroyed during the Russian assault in January 2000, and only one other family still lives on her staircase. The hall, however, is neatly swept, and chalked in an authoritative hand on the door of each empty apartment is a notice: "Checked...
...blackboard-heavy experience is in part due to Harvard's great blackboards: the room-wide expanses of Sever's corner classrooms, the perfectly automated n-piece boards of Maxwell Dworkin, the unfinished lemmas on the wall of the math lounge, the nearly square boards in the string theorists' fourth-floor playground...
...Bathtubs. The real kind, footed and very deep, preferably with a skylight and ubiquitous bottles of Mr. Bubble. Obscure books to read in the bath (e.g. History of Troy). These are infinitely preferable to the flagging water pressure and occasional infestations of fourth-floor showers. The latter, however, are much better for productivity: It is impossible to take a bubble bath in less than forty-five minutes...
...Saturday afternoon in early fall, 10 first-years are hanging out in a fourth-floor common room in Weld Hall, chatting about extracurriculars and classes, relaxing after a football game. A few of them are lying on the floor, a couple are loafing in armchairs and the rest are lounging on a tan-and-white striped couch...
...project requires a lot of attention, as their fourth-floor studio in an Allston industrial office complex proved...