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...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...
...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...
Professor of Public Policy Mary Jo Bane, who resigned from her post as assistant secretary on welfare in the Clinton administration after the 1996 reform bill passed, said that while reformers in 1996 were well-intentioned, they may have created more problems than they solved...
While Massachusetts has taken a hard-line stance on welfare reform, Bane hopes that the historical-liberal state will help the 5,000 families who will be kicked off the rolls next year. She says that politicians who have played themselves as "tough" on welfare reform now should try to help the families who struggle the most...
...face of it, this may be dismaying news to Americans. Primakov's stubborn, bluntly phrased opposition to U.S. policy in most parts of the world--from the Middle East to the gulf to the Balkans--has, after all, made him the bane of U.S. officials. In public, at least. In private, Primakov seems to have shown a little more flexibility. Diplomacy, he sometimes says, is a process of mutual concessions. He has been able to establish a good working relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And officials at NATO, one of Primakov's least favorite organizations, say they...