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...There's an awful lot of hand-tooled custom tailoring that has to go on," Rudenstine said. "Fortunately, there are quite a few good programs in place already around the country...and I think if the government chooses to build quite a bit on those and go about it in a way of gradually scaling up...then it has a good chance of working...
...Seventy percent of the guys who go to school here go out with a baseball cap in the morning," says Louie Fenerlis, the manager and a haircutter at the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle St. "They come in here with hat heads...
Murphy, a general cook, and Pucci, a chef's helper, have seven years experience between them in Harvard's dining halls, in jobs ranging from kitchen laundry to custom catering...
...county, where the median family income is $46,700 a year, is home to a successful Asian-American community of doctors, engineers, teachers and small businessmen. The Tays, Chinese immigrants from Singapore, used the profits from Dr. Alfred Tay's medical practice to custom-build their 8,000-sq.-ft. home in an exclusive section of the city of Orange and to provide costly luxuries for their son and daughter. Stuart was a former Boy Scout, an academic standout at Foothill High School, and a founder of an Asian-culture club who hoped to attend a top-ranked college next...
...granddaddy of custom audio software is SoundMaster, a piece of "shareware" for the Macintosh that can be downloaded free from CompuServe and other computer networks (a $15 contribution for the programmer is encouraged). SoundMaster can instruct a computer to cough whenever the machine requests a floppy disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That...