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...report also identified the presence of asbestos-containing materials such as floor tiles through-out the Harvard Police Department, which is located in the 29 Garden St. basement. Contaminated areas include the first floor police property room, men's and women's bathrooms, the officer locker rooms and the first floor police task force room...
Workmen are still wandering through the halls, rats are being chased in the basement, and bulletproof glass is being installed in David Letterman's office. Not really bulletproof; that's just the way Letterman likes to describe the protective pane designed to prevent him from accidentally tossing a baseball right through the glass, as he did once at his old NBC office, raining shards on pedestrians below. But Letterman is already gushing over his unfinished suite as if he had just moved into Windsor Castle. "Look at | this," he says, striding into the room in his workaday outfit...
...bloc countries have found a niche market in guns that can slip in even under the new regulations. "As opposed to cheap, shoddy Saturday-night specials," says Jack Killorin, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "you've got very high-quality firearms coming in at bargain-basement prices." A fine Czech Republic semiautomatic handgun called the CZ, formerly made for infantry use, sells for about $250, in contrast to $700 to $850 for a comparable Austrian or Swiss handgun...
...basement of the Science Center, in a narrow room that looks like a set from the movie "War Games," operators are standing...
Where do these fluid flood numbers come from? Typically, local and state inspectors visit flooded properties for a firsthand look; however, when a house is under water, it's difficult to tell how much a property is worth or how many appraised antiques may be lying waterlogged in the basement. To come up with an overall dollar figure, inspectors calculate a per-home damage estimate and multiply it by the number of affected homes. And what's the per- home damage dollar figure they're using in Missouri? "I'm not at liberty to discuss it," says Eric Evans, training...