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They're the rage this season -- long, flowing skirts made of rayon or rayon-cotton-blend fabric from India -- but they also may be deadly, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. The thin material can be consumed by fire in less than three seconds. Do you own one? The skirts have a layer of sheer chiffon over a gauze underskirt with an elastic or drawstring waistband. Consumers are urged to stop wearing such garments immediately and return them to the store for a refund. Questions should be addressed to the toll-free hotline set up by the CPSC...
...public and private life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against illegitimacy, aimed at persuading poor people to become stable, self-supporting workers before they become parents. If this crusade works, its supporters promise, it could do more to fight crime, strengthen families, and rebuild the fabric of the inner cities than any other antipoverty program on the table...
...little of the old one's intimacy, and be sure that the acoustics are rich and reverberant, like a concert hall's, but dry enough to allow every word to be distinct. Opera houses tend to have a thin resonance, partly because of the heavy use of carpeting and fabric, which trap sound instead of distributing it, and partly because singers like things that way. Judging by the opening performance of The Marriage of Figaro, Christie got his wish. The theater is handsome without being ostentatious. The interior is stark, but the warm pine walls save it from being dreary...
Taylor and his workers swung into action with steel tubing, wood, fabric, paint and wooden wings. By the spring of 1943 they had turned out 750 Waco CG- 4A gliders that would be towed behind C-47 transport planes, the silent landing craft for men and weapons in the farm fields behind the Normandy beaches. One G.I. had just stumbled ashore on D-day when he saw what he thought was a great cloud rising across the Channel and coming toward him. It was the first wave of U.S. gliders bringing in more troops and guns. As the news...
...Hajek's teammates, Julie M. Copaken '94, says she and the other rowers could turn to the supportive captain as a friend in times of frustration or difficulties. Such personal qualities also made their way into the fabric of Eliot House for the last three years...