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Harvard may also install water detection systems, Lee said, noting that the flooding in Lamont was discovered serendipitously by workmen...
These kids, growing up in the age of digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...
...While the duo now have someone to share the blame with, Ryumin still claims the cosmonauts alone caused the accident and that he has "irrefutable evidence" to prove it. Perhaps. But as deputy director of Energia, the company which built Mir, Ryumin has an interest in blaming the workmen rather than the tools...
...advertising brochure and phoned a company that sent over a white salesman who called himself Tony. He got the couple to sign a work sheet calling for repairs that he figured would cost $9,000--plus $10,000 in "financing"--to be paid off in monthly installments. The workmen who showed up did additional damage, then demanded cash bribes--$400 in one case--to fix it. Meanwhile, the Singletons' signatures had mysteriously multiplied on mortgage contracts, and the $19,000 became $53,000. The finance company then sold the mortgage to Hempstead Bank. It is now held by Fleet Bank...
...Workmen used traditional methods and materials. "I am proud that the general way we constructed the whole structure is entirely consistent with the practices of 1595," says Peter McCurdy, the meticulous master carpenter who directed the construction project. Still, some compromises had to be made. For example, goat hair had to be used to give body to the plaster because no cow hair of the proper--and authentic--length could be found...