Word: annuals
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...bolstered by the fact that the legislation will be immensely popular with working mothers, who spend an average of $3,000 a year per child for care that is often of uncertain quality. Poor women are especially hard pressed. A report by the Census Bureau estimates that mothers with annual incomes of less than $15,000 paid an average of 18% of their income for child care. Declared Texas Democratic Congressman Michael Andrews: "We have standards for prisons, roads and airports. We owe as much to our children...
...their herds to maintain the elephant populations at optimum levels. That culling produces legally traded ivory. Those countries say a ban would punish them for the corruption and inefficiency of other nations. Ivory traders and retailers, of course, also oppose a comprehensive ban, hoping to save an industry with annual revenues estimated at $500 million to $1 billion worldwide. They are joined by the CITES secretariat, a Lausanne- based bureaucracy that monitors the ivory trade. Together, the industry and regulators argue that a legal trade based on ivory from natural elephant mortality and culling produces revenues for wildlife management...
...Benjamin T. Simons '92, a transfer student from Yale, commenting on Harvard's thirdplace finish behind Yale and Princeton in the annual U.S. News & World Report poll on "America's Best Colleges...
...annual Festival of Animation returns to the Cambridge area at the Somerville Theater this weekend for a two-week run. To be featured at this sampling extravaganza of animated subjects will be the Canadian award-winning The Crow and the Canary, 25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton's look at how to shed the deadly habit, and award-winning graphicist John Lasseter's computer-generated Knick Knack. The Festival of Animation is known internationally as one of the best showcases for the most recent creations in animation. This year's show also highlights The Hill Farm, which took...
Equestrian Hosts Show: The Harvard equestrian club opened its season by co-hosting--with Boston University--its first annual show at Huckins Farm in Bedford, Mass., last Saturday. Ten colleges participated in the show--Boston University, Colby-Sawyer, Dartmouth, Framingham State, Harvard, Lowell, Middlebury, Mount Ida, New Hampshire, Tufts and Vermont--which Dartmouth...