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...Yale expected. So she let Yale know. She wrote the financial-aid office and asked that the amount be adjusted based on the award from Stanford. "Since my father is in the process of opening his own business," she argued, "I fear that paying for my college education will drain our family's financial resources and jeopardize this chance he has to fulfill his lifelong dream." As a result, she got an additional $4,000 offer from Yale, lowering her parents' contribution to $6,000. Ultimately, Leung chose Stanford because of its psychology department, but she made a point well...
...plenty more candidates for the boneyard. Who would miss, say, the puny Chevy Metro, the unfashionable Buick Riviera or that boat on wheels the Cadillac Eldorado, outmoded cars that drain marketing resources. The Oldsmobile division, whose eroding customer base has put it on GM's hit list since the 1992 restructuring, still breathes...
Recentering the field is easier said than done. First, it must be regraded so that the field's center is four inches higher, allowing water to drain to the sides...
...hand to hand behind closed doors, in homes and motel rooms, in the style of a Tupperware party. Worse, its production requires little overhead. Ephedrine, an over-the-counter cold medication, can be combined with a shopping list of chemicals easily obtained from stores and industrial-supply companies (common drain cleaners figure in some formulas) and cooked in a kitchen sink from recipes downloaded from the Internet. Billings cops call these homely setups "Beavis and Butt-head labs...
...from their sober point of view, doctors and nurses can tell you only so much. The best way to see what crank has done to Billings--and perhaps understand the appeal of a drug made from drain-cleaning crystals--is to spend time with crankers, both active and reformed. A group of them loiter outside the Montana Rescue Mission, a private Christian charity that offers a bed to crash in and, if they choose, a religion-based recovery program, Reality and Christ...