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...always at her place anyway. You might think that living together is a sort of "trial period" that helps prevent bad marriages, since they can break up before taking an oath to each other. But the odds suggest the opposite; they divorce more. Why doesn't this filter work? Very likely, whatever it was that made them not want to get married in the first place ended up becoming a problem long-term...
...Student Council.3/7: The Faculty rejects a bio-chem proposal for dropping the non-honors track. Dan H. Hinz ’56 wins a green Ford thunderbird sports car and a 21 in color TV set after taking one of the ten top prizes in the Viceroy filter-tip naming contest.3/15: University takes its first stance on desegregation: the Divinity School permits its Chapel to be used for prayer for black ministers arrested on charges of encouraging a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. 3/17: The biggest blizzard in march since 1888 hits Cambridge. A second blizzard three days later causes...
...Australia's major cities than desalination. With "no demonstrated community support" for drinking recycled water, he believes desalination will remain the preferred option for coastal populations. National guidelines for recycled water are now being drawn up; Young says he would want it to be passed through a natural filter such as wetlands after treatment. "Even though the scientists say it's safe, treatment plants don't always operate within specifications. That's why we would say that an added barrier of putting it back through an environmental buffer is required," he says. "We need to be reasonably prudent and cautious...
...evolving to a world of two-way advertising very, very fast." Marketers love the interaction with consumers, and it's easy to see why: the results are immediate and measurable. "For the advertiser, it really turns out-of-home into a direct-response mechanism," says Alasdair Scott of Filter in London, the firm that developed BlueCasting, the Bluetooth-based system used in the Absolut campaign. The rock band Coldplay used BlueCasting last summer to launch its album X&Y. During a two-week period, 20,000 people downloaded video clips and sample tracks directly from posters in London's main...
...acceptances and rejections without a hitch this past week. Unfortunately, it hasn’t always been that way. The College’s current system has been relatively problem-free so far—the most recent mishap was experienced in 2002 when America Online’s filter system interpreted Harvard’s e-mails as spam and bounced the messages back to the admissions office. Fortunately for the College, it was obvious then that the Harvard admissions office was not at fault. Other than a few extra telephone calls, the error caused little distress. Other schools...