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...companies and biotech firms, or even used as flesh-and-blood crash-test dummies. The only hard rule, by federal law, is that under no circumstances may anyone profit from the transaction. The exception to that rule, however, is that the people handling, storing and processing the body may collect a reasonable fee for expenses. Such a loose standard begs to be exploited...
...Harvard women’s hockey team collect 25 regular season wins this year? Well, the squad played “Harvard hockey.” And how did the Crimson manage to stay near the top of the nation in nearly every statistical category? “Harvard hockey,” of course. And what has propelled the team to this weekend’s ECAC semifinals? That’s right, you guessed it—good old “Harvard hockey...
While calling her parents collect to tell them she had arrived, Yale elicited a strong reaction from the operator connecting...
Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage--suckers!--and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma. In between, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board scolded the big mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which make homeowning more affordable, for taking too much risk. In a couple of days' work, Greenspan went through sacred cows like an overzealous Atkins dieter...
Greenspan's most jarring rant was his call for Social Security reform. He wants to cut future payouts and delay the age at which people can collect. He would shrink future checks by indexing annual adjustments to an inflation gauge that runs a half point below the Consumer Price Index now used. He didn't offer a new retirement age, but 70 is a nice round number...