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...late August, Harvard terminated its contract with the Fort Howard company, which had supplied the University for eight to ten years, according to Milton F. Hughes, manager of materials in the Facilities Main- tenance department at Harvard. Hughes saidHarvard signed with the rival Scott paper companyshortly afterward...
...grew up in the racially mixed Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, messed around with drugs "the way everyone did then," and by her late teens was a high school dropout ("I just wasn't cut out for it") with a broken marriage and a baby daughter. Not long afterward she was living on welfare in San Diego. But her story can't be told that quickly. She looks on her childhood as privileged. Her mother, a nurse and a Head Start teacher, was a strong woman ("Still is. She's got her foibles, but she's amazing") who would...
...long afterward, the number of specialties started to explode. According to a report in last week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, more than half of the 70 subgroups certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties -- including such arcane areas as dermatological immunology and pediatric pulmonology -- were created in the past decade. Almost two-thirds of the 56 kinds of accredited residency programs have come into existence in the past five years...
...tentativeness coupled with sound, patient, relentless strategy; there was nothing particularly brilliant about Fischer's game, but nothing reckless or stupid either. The rules of this exhibition -- adapted to Fischer's specifications -- seem to reward circumspect strategy, since the prospect of saving a risky mistake by playing to draw afterward has been rendered unprofitable. When Fischer and Spassky met in 1972, draws gave each player one-half point toward the victory total. This time, ties do not count, and the winner will be the first to pick off 10 victories. Should the combatants reach a 9-9 tie, the prize...
...weeks afterward -- even this past week -- the region has been rocked by thousands of nerve-racking aftershocks, and the quake ignited mysterious swarms of smaller earthquakes in volcanic zones hundreds of kilometers away. But most alarming of all, this quake, the largest to hit Southern California in 40 years, appears to have substantially altered subterranean stress fields. In the process, it may have awakened a fitfully sleeping dragon -- the mighty San Andreas, the nation's biggest and most dangerous fault...