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...escape.” Jessica A. Berger ’08, who volunteers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Pediatrics on Friday mornings, wrote in an e-mail that she and co-workers peered out of their 18-story building after hearing of the fire, spotting a helicopter and some steam at around noon. “One of the patients’ parents came into the floor’s playroom and told us that there was a three-alarm fire at a building in Cambridge,” she wrote. According to MGH spokeswoman Valerie L. Wencis, 17 people...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One Dead In Kendall Fire | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...this hub of a glorious, steam-driven empire, the average life expectancy of the city's poorest was only 16, and the cellars of even the better off were often full of excrement. Still, the muck signaled a business opportunity to the 100,000 or so toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignorance is a Killer | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...dominance in power-play minutes. Through the first two periods Harvard committed only one penalty, resulting in a two-minute power play. Providence, by contrast, committed five penalties for ten minutes of power play time through the first two frames.In the third period however, the Crimson ran out of steam, its tough recent schedule perhaps taking a toll, and began committing penalties (four for eight minutes). Two penalties committed less than a minute apart by Harvard (at 13:01 and 13:53 into the third period) provided the Friars almost three minutes of uninterrupted powerplay, including almost a minute...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Martin Gather Momentum With Victory Over Friars | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Jessica A. Berger '08, who volunteers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Pediatrics Friday mornings, wrote in an e-mail that she and co-workers peered out of their 18-story building after hearing of the fire, spotting a helicopter and some steam at around noon...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Building Fire Kills 1, Sends 800 Fleeing for Safety | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...membership, at a fraction of[an error occurred while processing this directive] the normal cost, coinciding with the recent launch of its Spa in the Walled Garden. The clean, modern lines of the glass, stone and wood sanctuary - boasting such sensory treats as a vitality plunge pool, a crystal steam room and massage therapists with seemingly magic hands - are bisected by an 18th century garden wall that belongs to Rossdhu House. Built by the Colquhoun clan in 1773, it was the family seat until the mid-1970s and now serves as the clubhouse as well as the location of five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Comforts | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

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