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...They feel it is much better for a student to have had a certain amount of college course work under their belt," Foster says...
Harvard's goalkeeping is another strong spot. Sophomore Ed Chen won the starting goaltender spot last fall and posted a 51.6 save percentage and a 9.72 goals-against average. With a season's experience under his belt, he will look to improve upon both those totals...
Overnight Minnesota will be transformed from corn belt to money belt. Gigantic glass skyscrapers will rise in downtown St. Paul, home of the nation's wealthiest state legislature, and as the money floods in, Minnesotans will look for acquisitions: IBM, UPS, USX, GTE, Time Warner, Minnecorp, J.P. Olson, Chase Minnesota. Presidential candidates will hold their big, $100,000-a-plate fund raisers in Minneapolis, will pledge their support for water diversification and mention that, conservative though they be, they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for Hubert Humphrey...
OTHER FACTORS-VARIATIONS IN ocean temperatures and in high-altitude prevailing winds-are also involved. Nobody can say with any certainty why these me teorological influences come and go as they do. Gray favors a mechanism known as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, a vast, and so far poorly understood, undersea current that carries warm water from the Pacific and Indian oceans into the Atlantic. When the conveyor belt runs faster for unknown reasons, there is more warm water available to generate both rain in the Sahel and storms over the North Atlantic. Or so the reasoning goes...
Even as a small boy in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett wanted to be very, very rich. His first possession was a nickel-plated money changer that he proudly strapped to his belt. By age five he was selling Chiclets from a stand outside his house. At six he bought a six-pack of Coke for a quarter and hawked the sodas for a nickel apiece. He soon was charting stocks and made his first purchase--three shares of energy company Cities Service preferred stock--at age 11; they rewarded him with a $5 gain. Thus launched, Buffett vowed to become...