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...Bradley '97 and his roommates "turned on all the lights" and playfully "warmed [their] hands on the light bulbs" while others kept their computers running 24 hours a day to generate life-sustaining heat. Talia Milgram-Ellcott '98 of Matthews Hall admitted to "running the hand heaters in the bathroom on full blast" to warm the air in the bathroom and make showers friendlier...
...foil, and then to ground the foil, "Grounding" means to create a path from the foil to a point that is connected, literally, to the ground. In dorm rooms, try touching the foil to an unpainted water or heating pipe (such as the pipes under the sink in the bathroom or the pipes near the radiator). If aesthetics is a problem, try touching the metal part of a wire--any wire--to the foil and run the wire to ground. Tape the whole thing up so it doesn't fall apart...
Stainless steel bathroom stalls in the Science Center as well as Emerson and Robinson Halls have since made sex in the bathrooms a chillier, more slippery endeavor, guards and police officers...
...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...
...only solution, then, is long term: convince people like Mr. Halpin that having good teachers for our nation's children is worth waiting a couple of months on that bathroom plumbing. The probability of succeeding in that persuasion is bleak, however; in state after state, voters have steadily cut back on education al funding, and with the Republican-controlled Congress looking to cut just about everything, further federal aid is unlikely at best...