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...from the Census Bureau to the IRS, maintained its own computer listings. Now, more and more, these computers are sharing records. To nab draft dodgers, the Selective Service has fed its machines a restaurant chain's 10-year-old computer list of boys eligible for free birthday sundaes. To ferret out welfare cheats, social service agencies compare their rolls with lists of federal employees. And the Reagan Administration is prodding state governments to begin linking the computers that hold state unemployment insurance records, social security wage data and certain IRS returns...
According to the New York-based Helsinki Watch Committee, an independent group that monitors Soviet human rights abuses, the Kremlin under Gorbachev has continued to ferret out and arrest the few dissidents and human rights activists who are not already in labor camps or psychiatric hospitals. And - while the Soviet Union permitted a few more Jews to emigrate in 1985 than it did in 1984--1,140, vs. 896--Jewish emigration still lags far behind its peak year of 1979, when 51,320 Jews were allowed to leave...
Captivated by Omar the ferret in a pet store, Fred brought him home three months ago, and hasn't regretted it. John W. Boynton '88 was also ensnared by his furry friend on the spot. While walking by Holyoke Center last year, he saw a man giving away a box of kittens and took...
...since pets are only human, some owners have rather hairy stories to tell. Fred was out taking Omar his ferret for his daily walk and passed the room where the Opportunes were rehearsing. On a whim, he put Omar through the open window. "One guy saw him and started screaming and then they all started screaming, so there were 10 people screaming at once," he recalls...
Gucci's success has spawned imitators on five continents. The firm maintains staffs in Rome, London and New York City to ferret out the increasingly sophisticated fakes that are drawing off millions of dollars a year in sales...