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...page is primarily financial: The agency thinks that making the information available on the Web will save millions of dollars in paperwork. Last year, the SSA mailed some four million financial reports to taxpayers at a cost of $5.23 each. Delivering the same report over the Internet costs a fraction of a penny. As usual, the bureaucrats are not very concerned that the site makes collecting private Social Security information relatively easy. "We have confidence that in the huge majority of cases, the people requesting these things are the right people," John Sabo, SSA's director of the Electronic Services...
...those years, as minority group members pursuing careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics, we were acutely conscious of just how few we were. Women, of course, represented a still smaller fraction: a minority of a minority. The smallness of our numbers was in some respects a major challenge," Jackson said in her remarks...
Such insight is worth the fraction of a cent it costs each of us. There should be some incentive for poets to think and write about America, and we should each be proud to contribute our tax money to the cause. Too often, we do not have the time, or the ability, to think and write for ourselves. We should be proud that our country has chosen to reward those who do have the ability. Moreover, we should be especially proud of the brave Robert Pinsky, our newest Poet Laureate...
Gradually Snowdon and his colleagues began to understand that Sister Mary was not unique. Out of a group of 61 deceased nuns whose brains showed clear signs of Alzheimer's disease, a large fraction, 19 in all, seemed to have escaped the confusion and memory loss that make this form of dementia so devastating. The reason? As Snowdon and his team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, these nuns, unlike their counter-parts whose symptoms were severe, had not suffered from strokes--particularly the small strokes so commonplace in the elderly. Only...
...bravura, eradicated this quibble. A duet passage with principal cellist Steve Cho '97 was captivating, but the otherwise bland ensemble writing made it impossible for the orchestra to advertise itself. This is mostly Liszt's fault, but things would have improved if the others had played with even a fraction of Sekino's drive. Her music-making seemed to grow out of a deep understanding of earlier influences on the concerto's temperament: Liszt's Funerailles, "Paganini" Etudes and Piano Sonata in B Minor...