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...soda in Harvard Square. Local vendors--like Sage's, Store 24 and Christie's Market--do not yet carry the product and give no date when they might stock the lightning-clad cans. The closest vendor which offers the all-nighter helper is Bloomingdale's at the Chestnut Hill Mall...
Shepsle was a math major as an undergraduate, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. When he was closed out of a mathematical physics class as a junior, his advisor suggested that he take a political science class instead. He did--and he loved it, and went on to graduate studies in the field at the University of Rochester...
...rest of the country is seeing boom times," says Moore. "They are not blaming Reagan. They are blaming the local political system for not preparing the state." He has attacked Breaux for his ties to Louisiana's Democratic elite and for missing 1,083 House votes during his Capitol Hill career. In an effort to cut into his rival's support among blacks, he ran a commercial declaring Breaux had voted against legislation to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Actually, Breaux voted against the measure in 1979 but supported the bill four years later. Moore...
Breaux's hope is to prevent Moore from winning the magic 50%, then to unify all the Democratic factions behind him for the runoff. "I have been an effective legislator," says Breaux. "I am talking performance while he is talking plans." Known as an artful wheeler-dealer on Capitol Hill, Breaux has $ in fact pushed through 19 pieces of legislation in the House, vs. none for Moore. The Democrat has played down the issue of party affiliation in his campaign, urging people to vote for the man, not the party. "I am an independent moderate Democrat," says he. "To elect...
Basinger found that the forest was indeed dense: the stumps are only about ten paces apart, and some are as much as six feet across. "Along the edge of the hill and up on the crest," he says, "are dozens, maybe hundreds of stumps." Basinger also made "an incredible find" -- up to 19 distinct layers of stumps. "Each layer is a forest that developed, lived for many centuries and was overtaken by floods of sediments that killed the roots," he says. "They must have been killed off relatively quickly for the roots not to decay, and buried deeply enough...