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Usually, plumbing systems contain a "water trap," a kind of moat where water collects in a curved pipe. Normally, cockroaches can't cross it, but in the summer months the water evaporates and the roaches can get inside...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cockroaches Invade Eliot, Lowell Houses | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...news story, it lacked for little. A pipe bomb had gone off; authorities needed to send a robot in to check Ashbrook?s body for booby traps. Shiny, happy, God-fearing kids mowed down when God was supposed to be caring for them. A throwback to Cassie Bernall at Columbine, and the shredded prayer circle in Paducah, Ky., last year. CNN followed step by step the rampage, flight and capture of Buford Furrow at the L.A. Jewish Community Center in August. Just one had died. Columbine? We?ve only just now stopped hearing about Columbine. Yet the shooting barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd and Ft. Worth: A Tale of Two Stories | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

What You Didn't Know: The Lower Common Room features a small but working pipe organ...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: DARTBOARD | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

Maybe it's just that in Utah, joining a social order devoted to clean living doesn't exactly distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mutant Brady Bunch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...assault investigation, imagine the horror of John Lim, a mail carrier who has tried to steer his three sons clear of Straight Edge. The detectives are in Lim's garage now, breaking down his stepson Jesse, 20, with a splendid good-cop, bad-cop routine. Jesse admits throwing a pipe at another kid during a fight at a cemetery, but he downplays the gravity of what police are calling a possible felony assault and swears that he is not a Straight Edger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mutant Brady Bunch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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