Word: linoleum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students at other colleges, most of whom livein minuscule two-person boxes with cinder blockwalls and linoleum floors tend to get jealous whenthey see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. Andwith good reason. Harvard's dorms have somedrawbacks, of course; students need to develop thestamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance forold architecture. But a housing system thatinvolves working fireplaces, wooden floors,spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn'tsuch a bad start to a Harvard career.Crimson File PhotoCanaday, the newest first-year dorm,consists of seven rectangular buildings in thenortheast corner of the Yard...
...year to hear the masters playwill not be found in the smaller clubs. InBoston's increasingly upscale environment, thediminishing number of joints like The Willow standout because of their lack of pretense. Indeed, TheWillow's wall-to-wall, industrial strength,redish-brown carpeting (which is actually on thewell), small linoleum tables and pastiche of 70'sjazz-album covers taped up near the ceiling forgea distinct sense of place hard to find in theRegattabar, with its predictable hardwood floorsand delicate candelabras...
...place asbestos-containing building materials do not pose a health threat to building occupants. More to the point, chrysotile asbestos, the type used almost exclusively in flooring products like linoleum, was characterized as "innocuous" by experts at a World Health Organization conference in Lyon, France in 1989. The simple fact of the matter is that the relative risk posed to building occupants by asbestos-containing building materials pales in comparison to the risks of everyday life...
...perspective, consider the case of the Prudential Center in Boston's Back Bay. The Prudential Tower contains literally tones of sprayed-on fire proofing containing 60 percent amosite asbestos. Amosite asbestos is claimed by some to have a greater disease-causing potential than chrysotile, the type presumably in the linoleum at 29 Garden Street...
...floors in my Weld Hall suite were made of cold linoleum. But a University official who oversees the construction project recently told me that all along, beautiful hardwood floors lay beneath the tiles. As part of the tiles away, leaving wood for the dorm's future residents...