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Many department stores have a double standard when it comes to alterations on clothing: women pay extra but men do not. Most shoppers accept this inequality, but not Muriel Mabry and Lori Anderson, two California businesswomen. When they bought dresses this summer at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Costa Mesa, Calif., they were each charged about $40 for alterations. Meanwhile, the women claim, Anderson's husband bought a suit and tuxedo that the store tailored for free...
ARABS and Jews, alike. Costa Ricans. Eastern Europeans. Come one, come all--that's the message which the Kennedy School of Government has been extending these days. Unless you're Michael S. Dukakis, that...
...addition to the new Middle East program, which will bring social workers from Israel and several Arabic nations to Harvard for the year, the Kennedy School recently announced a Costa Rican fellowship program named in honor of Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias and several other programs which will allow Eastern Europeans and Israelis to study here...
Herrera, 46, who is rumored to be either in Costa Rica or at a U.S. air base in Panama, has used clandestine radio appeals and fax messages to invite senior military officers to join him in a coup. These colonels are thought to be opposed to Noriega's acceptance of Cuban advisers and weapons, as well as $20 million in Libyan aid. Many enlisted men, unhappy about poor pay and the corruption above them, are also receptive...
...this summer. The nine-year-old, nonprofit flying service, which operates on a budget of about $200,000 a year, has tracked radio-collared wolves in Montana and rare porpoises in the Sea of Cortes. Last winter Stewartt and Volunteer Pilot Jerry Hoogerwerf flew for several weeks over the Costa Rican rain forest and discovered and helped stop illegal gold mining and logging near a park on the Osa Peninsula...