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...Prevention is not easy. Experts advise that you vacuum your suitcase and wash all of your clothes in hot water after you return from a vacation where you've seen signs of the pests. If you have the bugs in your home, wrapping your mattress and box spring with a plastic or allergen cover and placing the bed legs in cups of water may keep the insects out of your bed. Filling cracks in walls where bugs may crawl in from other rooms or buildings is another recommendation. Multiple pesticide treatments from professional exterminators are necessary...
...separate allegations of rape, a report of indecent assault and battery, and a brawl between three men outside the club, according to police reports cited by The Crimson. Shortly before the club closed, a 1991 Crimson article claimed “the club maintained an unsanitary ‘mattress room’ for sexual exploits and promoted the room in its newsletters.” Pi Eta alumni maintained ownership of the building until 1996, when fraternity Sigma Chi became a co-owner. But the cohabitation did not last. Pi Eta forced Sigma Chi out of the building...
...Green installed herself on the living-room couch, Todd and Jonah slept in the second bedroom, and Caroline bunked with Grandma. "It was tough, especially because the first night, Caroline came down with a stomach flu and was throwing up all night," Green recalls. "I put her on a mattress on the living-room floor, where I could take care of her," but Caroline, used to a crib, kept rolling off and waking up. Meanwhile, Jonah was restless on a cot and kept his dad from sleeping. So much for settling down for a long winter...
...spherical white lantern dangling above his bed, if the term applies. Ching gave his bedframe to Matsui (for a king-size bed) and created a sleeping/sitting/lounging area on one half of his floor. The black fabric on the floor separates his desk space from this nest. A squishy black mattress pad, shaggy white rug, and a handful of black and white throw pillows make a “loungy feel,” Ching says. Large shards of broken mirror adorn the wall above his desk and two neat rows of square mirrors line another one. The black and white...
...October 1971, Harvard women followed suit, establishing a women’s center in the basement of what is now Pforzheimer House. Three weeks later, The Crimson wrote that “space was provided by cleaning out an old mattress storage area next to the maids’ room...The Women’s Center, staffed on a volunteer basis, is a place where women can drop in for discussion of subjects of common interest. The library is to be a source of information for undergraduate papers and theses on women’s issues...