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Nora's childhood house was made of adobe, but she and Ron built their two- story, five-room house for $6,000 out of logs and cement. It is a handsome, organically grown house with unpredictable flourishes: the door handle made out of a part from a lawn mower, the recesses in the stone walls for candles, the richly ornate wood carvings throughout. Although the Oests don't have plumbing, a telephone or a well, they do have electricity and a refrigerator they bought for $10 from a neighbor who later shot himself because his condominiums failed...
...University has performed seven emergencyrepair jobs this year, including work in ApleyCourt and Mower and Lionel Halls, according to thelist. Most of these jobs come in response toindividual complaints and are usually "small,"said Michael N. Lichten, assistant director forfacilities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...program that directly concerns and depends upon the cooperation of students, and then not informing them is bad policy. It confirms what we would like to think is only the myth of Harvard's communication gap with its student body. In the case of the students in Mower Hall A-21, the Dunbar Lab officials ordered the inspection of the room but neglected to inform residents of removal plans and inspection findings or warn them about exposure to the carcinogen...
...Mower resident's report of the exposed asbestos took a tortuous route from North Yard Senior Advisor to Freshman Dean's Office to Yard Superintendent to Dunbar Lab three weeks later. Instead of leaving communication paths to the whim of a case-by-case piecemeal policy, the University should inform students about environmental health hazards...
...said that exposure to smaller quantities can increase the risk of lung cancer, but this occurs mainly in cases of asbestos workers who encounter much higher levels of the material than the Mower residents would...