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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those little 20 percent discount cards from the Harvard Book Store that are lying in your wallet, purse or desk drawer. Use them...

Author: By Amanda P. Fortini, | Title: 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...learn more and sign on. From Day 1, attendants were told that for a limited time, the Forum's tuition included a $95 follow-up, "The Forum in Action." The crowd was also repeatedly invited to sign up for the $700 "Advanced Course." Act now and get a $100 discount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...decided to become an undercover agent after he got a tip that Wang had approached a dialysis center in New York City with an offer to provide its clients with human kidneys at a steep discount. Wang reportedly told doctors that he could, for a 25% fee, arrange for patients to receive a kidney transplant in China without what is often a two-year wait. Rather than go along with the deal, however, the physicians put Wang in touch with Wu, who rigged up a camcorder and posed as the center's director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Parts For Sale | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...thou aesthetic, the Harvard Bookstore is "definitely not" part of a chain, according to an offended representative at the store's information desk. As cool as they are, however, someone ought to tell the folks at the Harvard Bookstore to lose the Barnes and Noble-esque green signs and discount stickers on New York Times bestsellers--posing as a chain bookstore is almost more offensive than being...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Beyond the Coop | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

These days laptops, once the accessory of bicoastal businessmen, are right at home next to grade-schoolers' lunch boxes. A program launched by Toshiba and Microsoft that offers software-loaded laptops to schools at discount rates has grown from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning By Laptop | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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