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...Harvard women's hockey team opens its Ivy League and ECAC seasons this weekend with a double dose of league competition. Today, the Crimson (2-1-0, 0-0-0 Ivy) faces off at home against last year's Ivy League champion, Princeton (1-2-0, 0-0-0), and tomorrow it completes the H-Y-P weekend against perennial archrival, Yale...
Even as a significant economic sector in the population, we must be careful to step lightly. We don't pay taxes in Cambridge, so we should have an extra dose of respect for those around us who do. After all, they pay for the T, for the metropolitan police and for the public works from which we all benefit. Making the tour would be a lot harder without these essentially free resources...
...onslaught of acid blockers, the lower-priced and faster-acting antacids will almost certainly maintain a respectable market share. Tums, for example, costs less than 3¢ a tablet. That compares with more than 40¢ for a one-a-day Pepcid AC tablet or a Tagamet HB two-tablet dose, although both products currently offer substantial rebates. Still, booming sales of the new acid blockers seem to show that heartburn sufferers are not troubled by sticker shock. At a Duane Reade drugstore in Manhattan, Darlene Jackson, 35, picked up a box of Tagamet HB and noted the higher price but decided...
Inconvenience and expense are also factors. The Sabin vaccine comes in a sweet-tasting liquid, but the Salk vaccine can only be injected. Parents and youngsters will not welcome another shot in the already packed vaccination schedule. The injections cost more ($4.99 a dose in the public market vs. $2.27 for the live virus) and may mean another trip to the doctor. Some are worried that the immunization rate, particularly in inner cities, will drop...
When the newly elected President Clinton told all Americans that they would have to sacrifice to pull the country out of recession, many moaned and groaned. But the Republicans, thanks to their doubly painful dose of flawed economic planning, have brought sacrifice to new heights--at least, for some people...