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...last item discussed by the Faculty Council was health plan increases. According to a letter sent to Harvard faculty and staff, "premium increases in the HealthFlex Bias and Bay State plans are no substantial," officials are giving advance warning...
Each museum or agency which falls under the act was required to produce a summary, rather than an item by item description, of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects and cultural patrimony by November...
...soundbites" in his briefcase. He says OSHA regulations regarding disposal of bloody medical waste prohibited him from giving children their extracted baby teeth for the tooth fairy. "Now I don't mean that the OSHA idiots said dentists may not give out baby teeth," Norwood says. "They said any item with blood on it is contaminated. Lawyers look at that and read it strictly, and it was the opinion of the American Dental Association that we can't give out baby teeth." The A.D.A. denies it ever issued such an interpretation, but Norwood believes its interpretation of the osha rule...
Forests, however, are just one item in Siberia's bulging portfolio of natural resources. Soviet exploitation managed to poison and degrade 35,000 sq. mi. of the vast republic, but that only scratched the surface of its mineral wealth. Bob Logan, an economist at the University of Alaska, has made trips to Yakutia to study the region's economic prospects, which he describes as "staggering." As much as 20% of the territory is known to have oil and gas deposits that could make it the Saudi Arabia of the north. The area is one of the world's leading sources...
...ITEM ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION of Jane Austen, I am said to be "miffed" at the public response to the thesis--supposedly bruited by me--that Austen might have been gay. In an essay on Austen in the London Review of Books, I discussed Austen's profound emotional bond with her sister, but I did not say that I thought she was homosexual in any self-conscious or active way or that she had sex with her sister. My remarks have been sensationalized by the British press, and I am afraid you have simply followed suit. TERRY CASTLE, Professor Department...