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...student at the Kennedy School of Government presented his assessment of Cambridge's in-lieu-of-tax agreements Tuesday night at City Hall, in a report that one city councillor says will affect town-gown relations nationwide...
Eric Halverson, a second-year student who completed the project this semester as part of his degree requirements, explained his 40-page report to a dozen Cambridge, Harvard and MIT officials, as well as representatives of Mayor Alice K. Wolf's town-gown committee...
...hottest commodity on the charts right now, it still lacks cachet. The wasp- waisted Zelma Williams handles the majority of female vocals on the record, yet it's a struggle to fix her with any strong identity. She might as well be a digital sample dressed in an evening gown. If producers are the stars, then they better have star quality. Or develop it. Some things just can't be made in a factory...
Hospital food is dreadful. Hospital bills are frightful. Yet they are nothing compared with the humiliation of the traditional hospital gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co. of La Jolla, Calif., has built a better hospital gown: a soft, thick, robe-like garment with an overlapping flap in the rear held in place by strategically positioned Velcro tabs...
Conceived by brother-sister team Anita Chaffee and Tim Russell, the $16.35 No Moon costs at least three times as much as its low-end equivalents. But, says Chaffee, "for the extra money you are getting a gown that has much more function, design and comfort to it." After a trial order of 12 dozen from La Jolla's Green Hospital in January 1990, the gowns were boosted by exposure at the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems convention in Palm Springs last October and an article in Modern Healthcare magazine in January. Result: the company has received inquiries...