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...PLUMBING Safe rooms built on a budget often don't have a toilet. One builder recommends a bucket as a low-cost alternative. Jodie Foster would not approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Need To Panic | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...have the money to buy my own coats, so my understanding of my coat’s cost was second-hand. Similarly, my college education is paid for mainly by my parents (the $2,000-$3,000 I earn during the year is a drop in the proverbial bucket). I cannot value Harvard (although guilt is a great motivator) simply because it is a financial burden for my parents. That one-step removal from actual earning is a substantial one; at nine, I could not comprehend that my coat represented hours of labor to my mother...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: The Value of Education | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

While Radcliffe is eager to further the academic interests of female undergraduates, Faust said it will maintain distance from issues of social life. Faust added she does not want the Institute to be a “bucket in which [the schools] can deposit their radioactive gender issues...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust Reviews Role Of Radcliffe Institute | 3/13/2002 | See Source »

...course, making good on that guarantee requires bending the prey-and-predator rules. Animals at some preserves are so accustomed to humans that they wander into range at the sound of a rattling feed bucket. Elsewhere they're confined to small patches of woods where they can't elude hunters for long. At others they may never even make it out of their cages before being shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting Made Easy | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...like the Princeton and Yale games, Harvard saw its halftime lead evaporate quickly. Senior guard Treg Duerksen nailed a three-pointer and added another bucket to key a 12-2 Columbia run over the first 7:23 of the second half to pull Columbia within...

Author: By Samuel C. Roddenberry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Sweeps Lions, Big Red | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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