Word: piped
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This weekend--the weekend of the Head of the Charles regatta and the Undergraduate Council chair elections--we should think about the future of entertainment at Harvard. There is no reason why the only music we have on campus is what we individually pipe through our compact disc players, and what student bands provide at house dances and local bars. There is no reason why we should have to worry about looking lame in front of all of our East coast visitors who have some of the nation's finest film programs, concert series and comedians on their campuses...
...order . . . The fate of an object in which we had no interest suddenly begins to disturb us." Turned balusters, game pieces, the little round horse bells known as grelots, cut-out paper doilies, wood paneling, views through a window, fire, a birdcage, a rifle, a tuba, a pipe, loaves of bread, a naked woman: there wasn't much in Magritte's repertoire of images that couldn't have been seen by an ordinary Belgian clerk in the course of an ordinary...
...Hudnut somberly, "maybe we'll catch a precursor." A hot wind swoops across the desert as Hudnut retrieves a plastic box from under an oleander bush and pops the lid to reveal the small satellite receiver it shields from blowing sand. Nearby, a tripod-mounted antenna straddles a survey pipe like a spindly sentinel. Coded signals beamed down by orbiting ! satellites, Hudnut explains, serve to pinpoint the location of the pipe. The slightest shift in the pipe's position, and Hudnut will know the earth around it is on the move...
...emissions from cars and light trucks by next July. That would bring to 177 the number of regions conducting such tests. And in about 80 metropolitan areas with the worst air problems -- home to more than 60 million automobiles -- the test will be made much tougher. The simple tail-pipe gauge that measures exhaust while the engine idles will be gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive that millions of cars...
...determined to be sure this effrontery does not go unpunished that she has forgotten the book altogether. Instead, like the college professor who fiddles endlessly with his pipe before explaining why you are flunking his course, Hepburn decides to tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks...