Word: complexities
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Harvard (9-8, 5-2 Ivy) earned the third seed in the four-team tournament and will play its opening game Saturday against the second-seeded Yale Bulldogs (13-4, 5-2) at the Yale Field Hockey Complex in New Haven. The winner of that game will play Sunday afternoon at Yale against the winner of the match between topseeded Rutgers (13-6, 2-3 Big East) and fourth-seeded Villanova...
...seems to me that most people choose jobs or careers for lots of reasons, and the financial rewards of work is an important input in their decision. To condemn those who take jobs for money oversimplifies the complex factors that all Harvard students, all workers, must consider when choosing jobs or careers. ANDREW G. PATTERSON...
...ZEFF, a deputy art director, has been a driving force in combining great visual art with useful charts and graphics that help convey complex information. This week he designed our cover package, the first installment of a series on corporate welfare. "The fun and the challenge for me," he says, "is to take a story that isn't inherently visual and try to bring it to life in ways that will interest people and make them want to read...
...clear why the state of Kentucky believed it was the responsibility of taxpayers to improve GE's profit margins. Nevertheless, in 1993, Kentucky granted $19 million in income tax breaks over 10 years to the washing-machine factory in GE's sprawling Appliance Park complex. The city of Louisville and Jefferson County kicked in an additional $1 million...
Interactive Flight Technologies, the company based in Phoenix, Ariz., that developed the Swissair equipment, boasts that it builds the "world's most advanced interactive-flight system." Yet the complex and costly devices ($2 million or more per plane) require a web of wires from each seat to central computers, which generate a lot of heat. The question is whether the system--approved by the Federal Aviation Administration but installed only aboard Swissair jets--could have generated enough heat to trigger the disaster. Salvage crews have pulled up evidence of heat damage above the ceiling that straddles the cockpit and first...