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...piece of paper that would allow him to drink free anywhere in the empire. When he lost the piece of paper, he was given in its place a more permanent mark of the tsar's decree: a tattoo on his neck which he could flick with his index finger to get any bartender's attention and a free drink. To this day, flicking your neck with your index finger is the national sign for drunkenness, (it is only a matter of time, however, before Yeltsin replaces the signal with something a little more to his liking...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Bottoms Up! | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...Information technology, library materials andother costs essential for sustaining Harvard'sacademic programs continue to rise faster than the[Consumer Price Index]," he said...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tuition to Rise 3.5 Percent; Rate of Increase Declines | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...journal Science, a 150-year-old coral from the Seychelles Islands perfectly preserves both sets of fluctuations. One pattern tracks the El Nino fluctuations, swinging back and forth every few years; the other rises and falls on a 12-year schedule that closely follows India's official monsoon-rainfall index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Judith H. Danovitch '00 and Nadia L. Titarchuk '00 calculated their body mass index and compared them with standards provided by Fung in her column a few months...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Teresa Fung Dispenses Nutritional Advice to Students | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

Business Bytes The bulls are running on Wall Street; good Asian news and talk of a drug merger had the Dow up near 200 in afternoon trading. The merger? Only the biggest ever. Get the numbers anytime, by index or stock by stock

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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