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...Lobby Day organizers justify the bill based on equal pay for equal work...
...first year, all the College's housing is in one big lottery. Students would pick rooming groups and then compare all the factors, from size to distance from the Yard to view, and chose year-by-year what is best given their lottery pick. Houses will not have an equal distribution of sophomores, juniors and seniors, but the best housing will be more judiciously distributed, students will have more varied experiences and the system will encourage more College community, if not community within the individual Houses. The end of attachment to a certain House community isn't much...
...with makers of just about everything. "When industries are competing at equal price and functionality, design is the only differential that matters," says Dziersk, echoing the credo first spouted in the '30s by Raymond Loewy, father of industrial design. Loewy was the man who gave America the Lucky Strike pack and the sleek Greyhound bus, and when he added a flourish to the Coldspot refrigerator, to make it look just a little more streamlined than its 1934 competitors, Sears' sales skyrocketed...
...itself to the detection of diseases. Its e-nose can sniff out six of the seven types of bacteria responsible for urinary-tract infections. Microsensor Systems of Orlando, Fla., makes a $9,800 portable device equipped with crystal sensors that can sniff out spoiling food and chemical weapons with equal ease. Caltech researchers sent one of their chips on John Glenn's space-shuttle mission last year to keep tabs on the quality of the cabin air. An adventurous Cyranose was even used to study how the scent of wild cats in Africa varies among species...
...Mayor James Michael Curley, are staples of Irish-American political lore. Such tales are brought up every year at South Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast, where Boston pols get together at the local union hall, eat corned beef and cabbage and roast each other in an equal-opportunity political slugfest...