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...typical weekend such as February 24th and 25th. A Harvard squad of old turned things around in a 5-3 win at RPI, as Martins seemed to be all over the ice and the Engineers in the Friday night shootout. But the Mr. Hyde of the weekend again bore his ugly head--Union scored early and often on Saturday, before Harvard made it close late in a 5-3 loss...
Thenumber of unmarried women having children has soared in recent years, with white women in their 20's accounting for much of the increase, says a new study by the National Center for Health Statistics. Unmarried teens, who in 1973 accounted for over fifty percent of all illegitimate births, bore fewer than a third of the 1.2 million out of wedlock babies in 1992. However, the new single mothers aren't real-life counterparts to Murphy Brown. The majority are low-income women who are likely to remain stuck at lower economic levels...
...company, hoping to persuade Microsoft to write some software for GO's pen-based computer system, gave Gates and his developers a demonstration of how it worked. Microsoft said it wasn't interested. But two years later, the company unveiled a competing system called Pen Windows that bore an uncanny resemblance to GO's design, even using the same "gestures" to insert and delete characters. Microsoft calls the account "factually inaccurate...
...Democrats launched a withering barrage against the proposals even before they were fully spelled out. Reporters filing into the White House briefing room for the start of two days of oratory from top Administration officials found the theme enunciated even before the speechmaking started. A chart on an easel bore the headline cutting medicare to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized other proposals, such as a reduction in funding for Head Start, almost parenthetically. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, recalling...
...What a bore...