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When the House debated the measure in March, Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., a former member of the Harvard Business School faculty and co-sponsor of the bill, said the legislation “squarely addresses the scandal of Harvard University and other schools banishing ROTC and military recruiters from campus, while cashing Uncle Sam’s checks for billions of taxpayer dollars each year...
...cities boast of being the first wi-fi burg in the U.S. Grand Haven, Mich. (pop. 10,900), contends it locked up the title when it covered its 7 sq. mi. last March. But it's not the only player on the field. Cities such as Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Athens, Ga.; and Chaska, Minn., let folks roam the wireless Web from street corners all around town. Whereas those places might be ahead of the curve, analysts say that big profits have been elusive for companies backing wi-fi projects. Just because you're among the first doesn't mean...
DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...
DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, Calif. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training--and famously brilliant at it nonetheless--Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours, but his strap-it-on-and-go approach served him less well in the lunar program, when NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots. He never got a trip to the moon...
Today only a small percentage of brides' families cover all the costs. More often, it's the people getting married who end up paying. Wedding planner Mishell Henke, owner of An Unforgettable Occasion in Yorba Linda, Calif., says 95% of the formal weddings she handled last year were paid for by the couple themselves. Often the engaged pair do this so they can have the kind of ceremony they want instead of what somebody's mother dictates. They pay, they choose--whether it's an intimate affair or a blowout event like the one your daughter envisions...