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...explain his devotion to Harvard. Except for a two-year period of study at the University of Leningrad during the early '60s, Harvard has been Keenan's home for the past 24 years. He arrived in Cambridge as a college freshman in 1953, a self-described "kid from the boon-docks" of western New York. "This place has been very important in my life. Harvard has been very good to me," Keenan says and adds after a moment's reflection, "It still is." He served as master of North House for five years during the late '60s and early...
...corn crop has reached $162 million, and hay and pastureland losses total another $102 million. In Alabama, officials say three-quarters of the corn crop is gone, and certain counties in the Florida panhandle report the destruction of 95% of their corn and hay. The drought has proved a boon for bugs: without rain, insecticides fail to spread beneath the surface crust to the roots...
...category there are your basic ice cream places--Baskin-Robbins serves its 31 flavors at 1230 Mass Ave, right across from Lamont Library, and Brighams--which is now open 24 hours, a great boon during exam period--on Mass Ave next to the Coop. Your basic ice cream stores. Brighams tends to get real crowded, so avoid it in the afternoons...
...Northeastern University, Boston College, and at least a dozen other schools, the Green Line gets plenty of students, but it also gets much more than the 19-to-27 crowd that sometimes starts to seem like the only possible age group in the Square--it's a major boon to Boston's sense of community...
...Saudis more than double output, to 20 million bbl. per day, the shortage is delayed -but only for eight years, to 1989. Even if there is no production limit at all, shortages show up in the late 1990s. And such a delay might not be any boon to consuming nations: because of the long lead times needed to develop alternate sources of fuel, the situation "could become critical before it seems serious...