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...Thursday. Fire department officials say the blaze probably started when welding sparks, used during elevator renovation, ignited combustible material at the bottom of a shaft, causing the fire to spread from the basement to the 13th and 14th floors. For security reasons, the 21-year-old building had sealed windows both at the front and the rear, meaning the fire and smoke could not escape and the heat surged through the staircases where rescue operations were taking place. At the height of the fire, flames leapt from windows on the top three or four floors and the whole building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Fire Kills 39 | 11/21/1996 | See Source »

Only three days before that attack, another Harvard student had reported being robbed of $5 at knife-point. He said the attackers were two men who, in the early morning hours, approached his window in D entry of Wigglesworth Hall

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: 2nd Student Reports Attack Outside Lamont | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

...blissful repose: a stunning series of photographs of an Islamic holy place that shares a spot equally precious to Christians and Jews. Another great city forms the centerpiece of St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars (Abbeville; $95). Peter the Great founded it in 1703 as Russia's "window to the West"; after the hiatus of Soviet rule, that window is open again and marvelous to see. Back to Mandalay: Burmese Life, Past and Present (Abbeville; $55) captures contemporary people set in a landscape brimming with exquisite antiquities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOUNTY OF HOLIDAY TREATS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Officer Jim Crowley hops out of the car. He discovers another car with its passenger window shattered. He glances around cautiously...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: A Night in the Life of Harvard Police Officers | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

Students can decrease consumption by taking shorter showers, turning off appliances that are not in use and reporting leaky faucets, window drafts and heating problems

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Environmental Contest Underway on Campus | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

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