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...Geneva summit did not set a press attendance record (14,000 covered last year's Democratic Convention in San Francisco, for example), it probably rates at least an asterisk for the most reporters and technicians on hand to collect the least news. The event also marked Moscow's most ambitious effort yet to get its message across to the world media. In an attempt to match the Reagan Administration's well-honed communication skills, the Soviets set up shop a week before the summit at the International Conference Center, a concrete-block house dubbed "the bunker" and home...
...first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category, so that smokers could collect from insurance companies for therapy. When "transsexualism," or discomfort about one's anatomic gender and the desire to change, was made an official disorder, Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz derisively claimed to be suffering from "transchronologism" because he was dissatisfied with his current age and wanted to be younger...
...could well live for decades longer, and--like other boomers--you may find retirement boring. Maybe you'll surprise yourself: buy a horse, scale mountains, collect rare butterflies--all pursuits that require money in addition to what you'll need just to live. Not only that, if you do fall seriously ill, you'll want the best medical care you can afford. Still, you are absolutely right to shun probate in California: it costs your heirs a bundle. But if you leave your partner your house and money in a will, probate is just what you'll get, say California...
After all, the most obvious purpose of advising is for students to collect study card signatures, and departments are sometimes quick to assume that advising revolves around the study card...
...addition, clubs regularly compile ID numbers from student members when planning barbecues or picnics in order to collect food and supplies from Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) or when performing administrative tasks...