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Students and administrators at Radcliffe College are putting together a new computer database to collect all the information related to women around Harvard and the Boston area into one easily accessible form...
...money set aside to finance the fighting, Washington urgently passed the hat to its allies once again. While the U.S. has fielded two-thirds of the coalition's 685,000 troops, it reportedly hopes to limit its financial contribution to about 20% of the cost of the fighting and collect the balance from other key members of the 28-nation alliance. In response, Kuwait's government-in-exile last week pledged $13.5 billion to support the war effort. Saudi Arabia is providing food, water and transportation for allied soldiers on its soil, and agreed earlier to pick up as much...
BATTLEFIELD HISTORIANS. Military History Detachments from all the services have been sent to the gulf to collect and preserve maps and other documents that will eventually become the official history of Desert Shield for the National Archives. Also on deck: service members with artistic talent to do sketches documenting troop life in the sand...
...goods-and-services tax. A six-pack of yogurt and a dozen oranges are tax-free at the corner grocery, but one of each gets hit when bought in a cafeteria line. Self-employed workers earning less than $30,000 a year don't have to collect and pay the tax at all, so a wash-and-set at the hairdresser could cost $10.70 in one chair and only $10 in the next...
Some Nosy premeds have been known to "accidentally" bump a teaching fellow passing back exams and then eagerly help collect them off the floor. Others do permanent damage to the corners of their eyes from sidling up to classmates to feign small talk. One even claimed to lose her contact lens in the teaching fellow's grade book, providing the perfect excuse to rifle through every page...