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...result, Warren-Sherman is beginning to hum. Twenty companies, doing everything from carpet installation to computer-parts assembly, have set up shop in the district. Some 500 new jobs have been created so far, and 1,500 more are projected by 1987. In October, Ohio designated Warren-Sherman as its first enterprise zone. That promises to reduce state and local taxes for some firms. The next step is a 23-acre industrial park, where Owens-Illinois is now building a plant that will make corrugated boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Jobs | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...another such scene, Masha (Cheryl Giannini) recites her lines blankly to the tuneless hum of a spinning top. A third vignette shows Natasha sitting among a clutter of her child's toys: Building blocks, a tiny chair, a wooden dog on a string are silhouetted brokenly against the floor...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: A Flighty Trio | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

...occasional jazzy solos and melodramatic Latin rhythms. One of the best songs. "The Buck Stops Here," plays off the kind of Honour, Valor, and Cheerful Alacrity of plucky young Englishmen that Chariots of Fire took so seriously. Best of all, the score leaves us with a catchy tune to hum as we leave the theater--"Say Goodbye...

Author: By Susan R. Mollal, | Title: Whodunit | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

...explained, "Most importantly, it is a way to make students aware" of the field of neuroscience. Stanford University has a major called Human Biology, one of the two largest majors, which incorporates a very wide selection of courses having to do with "the human organism;" one-quarter of these "Hum-Bio" students elect of follow an advanced neuroscience sequence which may include everything from the biochemistry of nerve cells to the Psychology of motivation. A Princeton student can concentrate in Physiological Psychology within the Psychology Department and then choose to work with any of the 15 to 16 members...

Author: By Laura A. Feigenbaum, | Title: Wanted: A New Concentration | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...rules and regulations, the explanations of philosophy and practice, the words of wisdom and warning. The Handbook needs a context, for standing on its own, its directives seem distant and artificial. Imagine, therefore, the party to end all parties: the beer flows merrily from countless kegs; the stereo hum rumbles throughout the entire dorm; people are dancing; the furniture is flying; and Harvard seems a million miles away. Someone downstairs with a Chem 20 hourly the next day asks politely for a little more quiet. A fellow wearing only boxer shorts and a lampshade advises him to stick a carbon...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

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