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That semester, I had an 8 a.m. Justice section in Sever Hall. The path to avoiding all stairs consisted of taking the ramp off Sever Quad down to the basement, pressing buttons to open three heavy doors, and riding the elevator to the top. However, most early mornings, this basement door was locked...
...fact, it was during a lock-out before my third Justice section during which I realized that my stair-phobia had to end immediately. I looked around the empty Sever Quad, and began to crutch up the six main stairs. Mental power and coordination failing about halfway through, I fell forward on my face...
...behind in the evident assumption that the Cigarette Butt Fairy is coming to pick up after them shortly. My common room would not reek of the smoke that drifts up from the courtyard where I live. I would be able to walk past the Widener steps, the doors of Sever Hall and numerous other areas which are, technically, fed by an oxygenated atmosphere, without my lungs going into screaming shutdown. And everyone who lives, works and tries to study in the Yard will share these benefits...
Unwilling to sever completely his ties with the College, Jewett will continue to live at his Linnaean St. address, just a short walk from the Quard...
...they may have a better answer to the fire-ant menace. Patterson's lab at the Agriculture Department is studying a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs right on the fire ant's body. The fly maggots then eat their way into the ant's head and eventually sever the head from the body. Best of all, the fly seems to attack only fire ants. If laboratory and field tests show that the fly is indeed safe to use, says Patterson, the natural ant killer could be available within a year -- and Jack Reese will no longer have...