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Eliot, Dunster and Mather Houses all saw renovation work during recent months, including newly painted walls and wood work repair, said Michael N. Lichten, director of physical operations for FAS. In addition to cosmetic work, new fire sprinklers were also installed in the Mather tower...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

Eliot, Dunster and Mather Houses all saw renovation work during recent months, including newly painted walls and wood work repair, said Michael N. Lichten, director of physical operations for FAS. In addition to cosmetic work, new fire sprinklers were also installed in the Mather tower...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Human activities have also disrupted the delicate natural systems that maintain water supplies. To obtain wood and clear land for homes and farms, mankind is chopping down forests at an unprecedented rate. But vegetation traps water, reducing runoff and replenishing groundwater supplies. Throughout the world, tree cutting has led to floods, mud slides and soil erosion during rainy seasons and acute water shortages during dry periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't' just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," Like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid links of pseudofacts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...none of the "fathers said more than a few sentences a day to their children") live lives as similar as their houses. They all bake the same coconut cake, hang out laundry on the same day of the week and order dinette sets with laminated tops that look like wood but sponge off easily. Loving her children is not enough. To fit in, Nora would have to keep them up, along with the lawn, live a life as ordered as the ones around her and, most important, get a husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life On Hemlock Street | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

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