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...historian, Eli, does not mind seeing damaged stones: "Children, yes." Dan, an artist in civilian life, says that he could never paint any of this. His hair is totally gray, but he looks younger than Eli. He rarely speaks. In the dust beside a crushed house, a 1-mil coin marked PALESTINE and dated 1942 is found. When it was used as currency, the whole world was at war. One wonders who preserved the coin in Sidon...
...that statistic alone should provide an impetus for action. Given that admissions committee members believe uncertainty over financial aid was one factor discouraging accepted minorities from coming here, the University should remember that preserving aid-blind admissions and maintaining diversity are but two sides of the same coin, the latter goal unattainable without the former. Harvard should also take a hard look at just why the Black drop-off occurred, examining in particular some students' allegations that an inhospitable racial climate caused the shift...
Quickly dying are the days when cocktail-party chatter revolved around the rapidly appreciating value of a suburban house on a half-acre lot. Already dead is the tennis-court talk about coin collections and Krugerrands. Millions of Americans are now taking a crash course in a new savings strategy: how to make money during a period when the rate of inflation is declining, a phenomenon known as disinflation...
...only last month, just helped Warner Com, its parent company, post a record 57% increase in first-quarter profits. In 1982, according to San Francisco Securities Analyst Ted James, Atari, the world's largest supplier of home-video consoles and cartridges, should sell around $400 million worth of coin-operated video games and some $1.3 billion worth of the home-video consoles and cartridges. This represents a revenue for Warner almost six times that of their record business, five times that of the film division and about 47 times that of their Oscar-winning movie Chariots of Fire...
Hageman worries that some people might start using smaller coins to make the game safer, but he warns that "a smaller coin would he the perfect size to lodge in the airway at the back of the throat" and cause death quickly...