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Harvard undergraduates tossed 28 more tons of beer cans, Moral Reasoning papers and other detritus of college life into the recycling bins this year than last during “Recycle Mania,” leaders of the undergraduate-run Resource Efficiency Program announced yesterday...
...SARS mania spread faster than lice in a pre-school? One explanation is the unwillingness of public health authorities to take any threatened disease lightly. If SARS were to cause many deaths in the U.S., public health authorities would look foolish if they failed to mount a vigorous response in the initial stages of the outbreak. This uncertainly gives officials an incentive to play up the threat of the virus...
...altar of instant IPO riches. If Netscape worked, the next 100 Netlike deals could work, and the next 200, because the online economy would have to supplant the off-line economy. Dotcom alchemy had begun. Trillions of dollars in losses later, we now know what hit us: a mania that eventually destroyed the bull market itself. The banker perpetrators are now being pursued by the authorities, the analyst anointers held in low esteem...
...there’s more. Not only am I forced to use smoke signals thanks to my refusal to cave in to cell phone-mania, but I also have an aging computer to boot! I bought my Dell four years ago, so it’s not that old, right? It gets the job done, yet some days it seems like a giant paperweight taking up valuable desk space. It only has 64 MB of RAM, which I’m told is an embarrassing figure. True, when I turn it on in the morning, it makes sickly grinding noises...
...DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, R.-and-B. singer-songwriter whose chart topper The Twist ushered in a national dance mania in the late 1950s and '60s in the U.S.; in Los Angeles. Penned by Ballard in 1958, the song was picked up by Chubby Checker in 1959 and transformed into a rock-and-roll sensation. Other versions of the song became hits for acts such as the Isley Brothers and the Beatles. Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...