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KEITH JACOBSON, A NEBRASKA FARMER, RECEIVED A letter from the "American Hedonist Society" in 1985 bidding him to join the organization. In fact, the society was a sting operation of the Federal Government, which continued to offer Jacobson sexually explicit material. Jacobson resisted for 26 months, then finally ordered a...
Tuition revenues usually go into general funds, which pay for everything from staff salaries to cutting the grass. To keep high-paying industries from plucking off promising science talent, universities must provide laboratories furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. To achieve prestige, many schools engage in bidding wars for...
Shaking Felix's hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to...
Nestle outfought Italy's Agnelli family last week in a trans-European bidding battle over Source Perrier of France -- but the victory may get the Swiss food giant into, well, hot water. Suspecting a violation of European Community competition rules, the E.C. Mergers Task Force in Brussels has opened an...
Intelligence experts fear that many terrorists have been able to replace Soviet financing with money from Iran, which is said to be backing undercover extremists from Algeria to Thailand -- while simultaneously bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on...