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...TUNE UP. Cleaning your clogged air filters improves mileage 10%, for a savings of 27˘ per gal. Fixing a faulty exhaust-pipe oxygen sensor, which monitors the fuel-to-air ratio in your engine, can save 40%, or $1.08 per gal. Properly pumping up tires can inflate mileage...
...goal of centralizing the competing fiefdoms of control that render the process of reserving a room for an event completely intractable is, quite simply, a pipe dream. Too many different offices have control over room reservations, and the task of conceiving, lobbying for, and implementing a system is too great for such an initiative to approach short-term plausibility. Between individual Houses’ demands that their residents have first choice of rooms and the arcane regulations common among other Harvard common spaces, a centralized room reservation system is nothing but a black hole for time and effort. It would...
...built on the small grassy triangle next to Memorial Hall. This “Wintergarten,” as Kayden dubs it, would be connected to Loker and include places to eat and hang out, transforming a rarely tread-upon grassy knoll into an architectural marvel. A space-y pipe dream? Not necessarily: the Provost, a few deans, and Special Assistant to the Dean Zachary A Corker ’04 have all seen the study. Echoing the rest, Corker pronounced it “great.” Whether the plans are put into effect or not, the biggest...
...flood, in the south end of Cabot’s Briggs Hall, began at about 3:15 on Friday morning, when the plumbing on a toilet in room C-43 broke away from the water pipe on the wall. Although students called authorities, including House Master Jay Harris and Building Manager Gene Ketelhohn, shortly after the incident, recovery efforts by the HUPD and emergency construction crews did not begin until 30 minutes after the initial call, students said...
Professor Fash said he is hopeful that impending excavations in Harvard Yard will fill in some archival holes. He said he expects to unearth pot shards, pipe stems, broken nails, and glass from the 17th century, but also hopes to find remains of the original structure of the Harvard Indian College, including parts of its walkways, foundation, and refuse system. “Archaeologists love to find garbage,” Fash said yesterday. And whatever he and his team of student archaeologists find—be it garbage or veritable treasure—it will appear online...