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...father, who went to school only through sixth grade, is on disability and began working full-time at 13 doing mostly manual labor. Her mother, who earned a General Equivalency Diploma, processes personal income-tax forms...
...There's a certain enjoyment in manual labor and seeing something that you've cleaned and not having to think of anything for a while," says Lauralee Summer '98, who works between 7 and 14 hours a week in two jobs: dorm crew and the Radcliffe development office's alumnae phonathon...
...matter of "military utility." They explain that strategic doctrine has changed in the past generation, and current plans rely far less on mines than did those appropriate for wars of attrition. The capabilities the U.S. now emphasizes are speed, stealth and surprise. Even the Army's current manual on mines questions their usefulness, given the unpredictability of friendly troop movements. The military's most dramatic show of support for a ban came in April, when several prominent retired officers, including Norman Schwarzkopf, signed a full-page ad that ran in the New York Times. The ad called the prohibition...
...third typewriter was the lucky one. When federal agents raided the 10-ft. by 12-ft. shack of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski two weeks ago, they were overjoyed to find two old manual machines, relics of the pre- word processor, pre-Selectric age. Surely, one of these must be the antique on which the bomber pecked out his 35,000 word opus, Industrial Society and Its Future. In straight-faced leaks over the next week, the agents let it be known that, alas, the typefaces did not match, although they had high hopes for a third typewriter, discovered later. What...
Federal agents yesterday found a manual typewriter in Kaczynski's cabin which appears to be the one the Unabomber used to type his letters and the manifesto against modern industry and technology published last year by The New York Times and The Washington Post...