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...distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. If she'd had even a little mainstream fame, Estes Kefauver, who chaired a Senate investigation into the movies she starred in, would surely have called her to the witness stand, to gain tabloid headlines from the exposure of Bettie's lurid luster. Instead, while her producer defended his films ("But there's no nudity!") and psychiatrists attacked them, she sat outside the hearing room for 16 hours, ignored...
...Tommy’s House of Pizza, have been cited for rodent-friendly conditions. Although online public records lack detail, rodent violations do not necessarily imply the presence of rodents. Sanitary inspector Buddy Packer explains the violation could refer to a broken door that a rodent could use to gain entrance—one of Currier House’s recent critical violations.“Criticals mean we want it done by the next day or before we leave the place,” says Sullivan. “If there are a whole lot of [non-critical] violations...
...faculty don’t think their children should get special consideration,” Lewis says. “I think a lot of faculty are interested in merit-based admissions.” Jacobsen also says he does not think faculty can expect their children to gain special admissions consideration, but he does call tuition relief a “serious incentive” and “symbolic” because other universities provide the benefit.“It’s striking to me that Harvard doesn’t do that...
...sites further down the river." Others are even less upbeat. "I don't support it because I will no longer be able to work as I have been," says Mohammed Kasango, 16, who lives in a local village and swims the rapids for tourist tips. "I have nothing to gain from the electricity. I do not have it at my home." Those opposed to dams say projects such as Bujagali are misguided. Frank Muramuzi, executive director of Uganda's National Association of Professional Environmentalists, says that Nile governments should be looking at geothermal and solar-power generation...
...Vietnam's rising star, though, is its long-delayed entry into the World Trade Organization. Vietnamese-made garments, the country's second largest export earner (after crude oil), are still hamstrung in the important U.S. market by quotas that don't apply to most WTO members. If Vietnam can gain entry, as is expected, this year or next, garment exports are projected to double to $10 billion by 2010. Vietnam is already the world's largest pepper exporter, and the second largest exporter of rice, cashews and coffee. "Now that it's getting attention, Vietnam...