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Colleges started sharing information in the 1950s. Now critics say the system is tantamount to price fixing. College officials disagree, but they are complying with the inquiry. "I've done almost nothing but work on this request since July 31," says Amherst College treasurer James Scott. It will be worth the effort, he says, if critics "bitching and moaning about college costs" come to see that no one is getting rich teaching the country's children...
Most evenings between 8 and 10, George Bush excuses himself from the company of friends and family in order to be alone. As he has done for years, he retreats to a private study, now on the second floor of the White House, to read and write cards and thank-you notes to friends, political allies and even perfect strangers. This ever growing list of correspondents has served Bush well in difficult times, and may soon do so again. Last week the President added a new name to his address book: that of Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani...
...Peter D. Hart Research Associates. It asked 1,228 U.S. voters whether in the previous five years any member of their household had "used a handgun, even if it was not fired, for self-protection or for the protection of property." Roughly 4% (about 50 people) said they had done so. Projecting that percentage onto the number of U.S. households in the five years covered by the poll (1976-81), Kleck came up with the estimate that handguns had been used protectively 3,224,880 times, or 645,000 a year. Comparing that with surveys that included rifles and shotguns...
...emperor and king penguins occasionally proved less than hospitable to their new companion. Standing hip high, with beaks the size of small kitchen knives, the penguins repeatedly tried to jab Willwerth's legs. Fortunately, the Sea World curator managed to rescue TIME's roving correspondent before any damage was done. As for feeding Kito, Willwerth cannot remember another source that ate quite so quickly. His only challenge remains how to list an acacia tree on his expense account...
...most of the stock buying has been done by corporations through stock-repurchase programs, mergers, leveraged buyouts or employee-stock- ownership plans. All told, such buybacks have reduced the supply of shares on the market by a record $94 billion during the first half of the year, or nearly 4% of all outstanding stock. The buyout of RJR Nabisco alone took $25 billion worth of stock off the market, while the acquisition of Warner Communications by Time Inc. will reduce supply by another $14 billion...