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...have less work and consequently have leisure time, which Loker is attempting to capitalize upon. This plan has an added benefit. Since each student can take fewer courses, the number of students in each class will decrease drastically. With this plan, not only will attendance at Loker social events boom, but Harvard will rise up once more in the U.S. News and World Report ratings...
...Boom. Kelly's kneecap popped out of place one minute into her collegiate debut, and her freshman year was finished...
...disturbed by your article "Where the Jobs Are" [BUSINESS, Jan. 20], which placed undue emphasis on the pace of job creation for skilled workers and only briefly mentioned the troubles that unskilled workers have. Alongside the boom in job opportunities in high-tech and service industries, there continue to be serious difficulties in the labor market for workers who are less skilled. By emphasizing growth in specific labor markets, you may strengthen the misperception that there are many jobs available for the disadvantaged. JOEL POLLAK Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...just a coincidence of disparate factors," he said. "It was a variety of last-minute things: appointments, a death and the baby boom which is currently going on in the government department...
...boom in wireless communications has led to a corresponding boom in wireless snooping. The community of listeners--as people who use scanning equipment to eavesdrop on various wireless devices call themselves--is startlingly large. Bob Grove, publisher of the scanner journal Monitoring Times, puts their number at 10 million to 20 million...