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...Keven McAlester '92 says that it is the academic atmosphere and the metropolitan area that will bring him through the portals of Johnston Gate this September. A native of Dallas, Texas, McAlester says that he has spent a great deal of time in Boston and Cambridge, and felt there was really no way to turn down a chance to live in a different area of the country or to say no to a Harvard education...
Ironically, police exams were introduced in the mid-1960s to bring fairness to promotion, which had long been a matter of connections. Legal challenges have led testmakers to revise the questions, making them more detailed and less interpretive. "A question that asks for interpretation can be open to challenge," explains Joanne Adams of Washington's International Personnel Management Association, the largest producer of U.S. police exams. Unfortunately, the new exams are so exacting, she says, that contestants must stuff their heads with "tiny bits of specific knowledge...
Already, farmers have proved they are able to profit in some districts where unsubsidized irrigation costs as much as $75. They shift to crops that use less water, require heavy capital investment and bring a higher price: orchard fruits and nuts, specialty vegetables, safflower. They invest in drip irrigation and other water-saving technologies, and, where possible, water their land with inexpensive sewage effluent...
Congress overhauled the retirement program in 1983, after dire predictions that the Golden Age for the post-World War II generation would bring on the Dark Ages for Social Security. Before the reforms, the trust fund had worked more like a chain letter than a pension plan. Each current retiree's benefit check required payroll taxes from four current employees. But so many children were born right after the war and so few after 1964 that the pay-as-you-go system threatened to collapse when the boomers retired. In the first half of the next century there will...
Under plans announced last week, the conservatory will have its own library, recording studio and recital hall. "Information about this art form has been scattered; we would like to bring it all together," says Thelonious Monk Jr., the pianist's son, who has helped raise $12 million for the facilities. Duke President H. Keith Brodie, a jazz buff, was delighted to beat out Washington and Los Angeles for the site of the conservatory. Says he: "The first record I ever bought was a Thelonious Monk album...