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Residents in Cabot House’s Eliot Hall received a shock yesterday after a sprinkler pipe burst, flooding I entryway and forcing students out of their dorms for several hours. At around 3 p.m., Ajay G. Kumar ’08 was working in his second-floor dorm room when he heard a noise that became increasingly louder. “I looked out the window and saw a disgusting brown waterfall pouring down the side...of Cabot,” Kumar said. “I ran to get help from the senior tutor [Stephen H. Kargere...
...YORK—The day before I turned 20, I had an urge to be a kid again. Having decided to go shopping, my friend and I drove to the local Toys ‘R’ Us. Then, we ran through the sprinkler at our local park. A few hours later I officially turned 20. While I couldn’t stop time or even delay it, at least I could enjoy the moment for a while: carpe diem. On June 21, I was shocked to learn that longtime Technical Director of College Theatre, Alan Symonds...
Eliot House is also undergoing extensive internal renovations, as are Kirkland, Adams, and Dunster Houses. If all goes as planned, these Houses will have new showers, water-saving toilets, and high-efficiency lighting by September 8. Kirkland House will also have fire alarm and sprinkler upgrades...
...cool day last September, developer Larry Silverstein walked proudly through the lobby of 7 World Trade Center, the first of six skyscrapers planned for ground zero. He ticked off a few of the building's amenities--a lobby wall featuring computerized art; a sprinkler system with twice the capacity required by code--then made his pitch: "It is going to be the safest office building in America...
...Just over an hour's drive from Mildura's sprinkler-fed lawns and orange groves, the Willandra is starkly arid. But it wasn't always so forbidding. For thousands of years during the last Ice Age, when it was possible to walk from Tasmania to Papua New Guinea, water was everywhere, with a series of five large, interconnected lakes and 14 smaller ones offering a rich larder - mussels, golden perch and cod, as well as marsupials and water birds - for communities camped on their shores. As the lakes receded and were refilled, prevailing winds layered sand and clay on their...