Word: sprinklers
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Nationwide, most college housing structures lack sprinklers. Indeed, according to the National Fire Protection Association, a Quincy, Mass.-based industry group, 72 percent of dorms, fraternity houses and sorority houses that suffer fires are not equipped with sprinkler systems...
...basement lab in the Conant Laboratory building was flooded with water two feet deep when a fire sprinkler froze and burst Monday morning...
...nation has become a kind of giant store; everything is for sale. Catalogs rise like dough in our mailboxes, offering "the best double-buffer shoe polisher"; "the only floating practice green," which transforms "any pool into a challenging golf shot"; a "baby elephant sprinkler topiary" that sprays water from its moss-covered trunk. Fame is for sale. New hair, necks and noses are for sale. Debt is for sale. Every inch of space is used for advertising. A good pass in a pro basketball game is identified as an "AT&T Great Connection." Politics is for sale; candidates buy public...
...Klebold placed one final Molotov cocktail, made from a Frappuccino bottle, on a table. As it sizzled and smoked, Harris shot himself, falling to the floor. When Klebold fired seconds later, his Boston Red Sox cap landed on Harris' leg. They were dead by 12:05 p.m., when the sprinkler turned on, extinguishing what was supposed to be their last bomb...
...Widener Library renovation project, pegged at $52 million, will add air conditioning, a new sprinkler system, a new fire detection system and two new reading rooms to Widener...