Word: locks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down in my room, feeling powerless and frustrated at a world in which I can't take a walk past eight(seven during daylight savings time) or leave my door unlocked, even during the day. (The door issue is actually only a theoretical problem for us Matherites, whose doors lock automatically upon being closed; Mather was built in the '70s--by that time, people were already too frightened to design a dorm where community would be valued over safety...
While key card access has had a positive impact on campus theft, students who don't lock their doors are jeopardizing the safety of others within their building, police...
...would see him ghosting through airports from time to time, and when one's eyes would lock on his for an instant, in recognition, Agnew's face would flicker with a secret, wolfish, almost subliminal smile. Then he would turn and disappear...
...chemical processes that underlie thinking, feeling, dreaming and remembering. For an electrical signal to travel from neuron to neuron in the brain, it must cross a minuscule gap, the synapse, between them. A number of different chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters ferry the signal across the synapse and then lock on to receptors that lie on the membrane of the next nerve cell in line...
Other students in the dorm complained officials had not notified them of the robberies. "I kind of wished they had told us," said Jason L. Freidenfelds '00. "I would have taken precautions to lock the doors when I go to the bathroom. Sometimes I don't lock the doors, but now I will...