Word: waterproof
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Zito also warned students to waterproof their computers and other valuables. Even when items survive a fire, the sprinkling system may damage sensitive belongings...
...unreasonable to expect some flooding, but the extreme amount of leakage seen this past weekend indicates that Harvard needs to renovate the superstructures of many of its buildings to prevent such occurrences in the future. Additionally, while many of the buildings that leaked this past weekend are normally waterproof, others have a long and unresolved history of leakage. For instance, the basement of Thayer hall, which was soaked by this last storm, also leaked during the summer, damaging some computers belonging to the Harvard Model Congress...
...rainwater leaking in through badly-maintained windows and walls. The fact that some buildings have been known to leak in the past and haven't been repaired is even more egregious. We urge Harvard to reimburse students for all reasonable losses, and then to get on the ball and waterproof its property before the next storm washes us all into the Charles River...
...only negative to the policy is that some of the floats are ruined long before they finish the parade. If only they made waterproof crepe paper, we'd be in better shape...
...Matthew Whiting climbs aboard from the ketch. Whiting, 36, is lately of the French Foreign Legion; for that matter, he is lately also of the British army, the Spanish Foreign Legion and the University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature. The two men, both British, carry green fatigues in waterproof bags. They have short haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen-better, seen-worse expression, speaks nothing but rich, working-class Sussex. Someone says, "Cheers...