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...paid soon. How will the auctioneer be paid? How will you be paid? Is there anyway that we can come out of this with even a few hundred dollars? We have nothing. We have acquired and accumulated nothing -- with the 40 productive years of our lives down the drain. How long can we remain in our house...
Pack a universal drain stopper for Samarkand and a pepper mill on any trip. If you fancy a great British breakfast in London, bypass Claridge's and make for Fred's, a transport cafe in the East End docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from...
...taking the chicken run," as South Africans derisively call it. Last year immigration into South Africa fell 40%, while the number of those leaving the country rose by one- third. Among the emigres are a disproportionate number of engineers, accountants, educators and physicians, whose departures constitute a serious brain drain. The most popular destination is Britain, where many have relatives. The runner-up is Australia, to which the South Africans have been flocking in such numbers that they have been dubbed the "new boat people." Quite a few who arrived in South Africa from white-ruled Rhodesia have decided...
Citing fears that the editorship would be too great a drain on his scholarly research, Laurence S. Tribe '62, Tyler professor of constitutional law, said he would no longer edit the journal which he had proposed as an alternative to the current student-edited Harvard Law Review...
...Save British Science, is that "technical staff have been shed, equipment and buildings cannot be maintained and morale is destroyed by absence of career prospects." Worse yet, since 1980 Germany and France have boosted funds for new research by 30% to 40%, so that British brains have begun to drain off to the east as well as the west...