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...space is reserved for undergraduates. Eighteen students file in on their own time, working about 10-12 hours a week on any one of the three projects. Some days students might spend no more than 15 minutes in the lab—to set up a reaction or take a quick analysis of the previous day’s results. Other days they are there for hours, puzzling through experimental research...
...Sweet It was Actor Art Carney was closely identified with the TV sitcom The Honeymooners, as our Milestone on his death noted [Nov. 24]. Eighteen years ago, some early segments of the show were dug out of storage and released. They originally aired from 1952 to 1957, when The Honeymooners was a regular segment on Jackie Gleason's hour-long TV variety show. Our critic described these episodes in a May 13, 1985, report...
...Eighteen of the 25 largest gifts from individuals in MIT’s history have been received during the Vest presidency,” according to the press release...
...Eighteen states--including Oregon, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania--and the District of Columbia have separated, or "decoupled," their estate tax from the federal system. "Now those states will be imposing a tax equal to what the state death-tax credit used to be," says Lawrence Chane, an estate-planning attorney with Blank Rome in Philadelphia. "But because there won't be a credit against the federal tax, the overall tax burden for families in those states is going to increase substantially...
...Eighteen months ago, says Wacharee, she could barely afford the extravagance of a latte, never mind a posh apartment. Back then, she still considered herself a victim of the 1997 Asian economic crisis. The crash didn't mean the loss of her job, but it did mean a drop in pay and no more Christmas bonuses?money she had always relied upon to pay off her high-interest credit card bills. "There was no way I could afford to pay off my credit cards without the bonus," she says. "I didn't think I'd ever get my life moving...