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The 29 million U.S. taxpayers who even now are itemizing their deductions always feel a bit more charitable toward groups that give them a tax break on contributions. Many organizations would have trouble surviving if they could not offer such a sweetener. In exchange, the IRS requires that the groups...
But, as Arthur M. Jaffe, Harvard professor of Mathematical Physics and Hawking's host while he was here, puts it: "He can devote complete attention to his work. But it's a terrible price to pay."
Industry begins early. From the time children first set foot in school, at age six, they are faced with seven hours of classes a day, 240 days a year - and twelve years of unremitting pressure. Twice a year they must take exams - to get into the next grade, to get...
FASHION SELDOM admits of any studied explanation. Wavelike, trends rise, crest, fall and rise again seemingly without reason. Even fashionmongers, the people who devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true...
Harvard will go unrepresented in the hurdles as freshman standout Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson will devote herself to an attempt at a one-two finish with teammate Karen Cray in the pentathlon Junior Lenny Yajlma will have to take up Patterson's slack in the long jump. In the Big Time...