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Antinuclear, anti-Star Wars scientists were not reassured. Some campaigned through last summer against even the mention of any nuclear deterrence in the final draft of the interception workshop's report. Then came word of Comet Swift-Tuttle. "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows," quips Canavan, who oversaw the final report. "Even though Swift-Tuttle turned out to be a false alarm," he says, "it brought everyone's thinking into focus. There was no longer the kind of disagreement you saw earlier about nukes versus non-nukes." Compromises were made, and the long-delayed interception...
...bound people typically pay more for help than their tax-dodging neighbors, and their workers pocket less money. For example, a family that pays a nanny $250 a week must add $15.50 for Social Security taxes. The worker would likewise pay $15.50, plus $3.62 in Medicare taxes, not to mention federal and state income taxes. "It's very expensive to be on the books," says a New York City mother who does not pay the Social Security taxes. "I already pay $1,200 a month in child care. How can I pay more...
Club teams include everything from aikido to ultimate frisbee. We have huge intramural and recreational athletic programs, involving more than 3,900 students each year. (For some reason there is no mention of these in your stories; one would think that the athletic department simply ran the varsity sports, and that the only athletes at Harvard were intercollegiate...
...understand that your reporters spoke with several coaches who expressed contentment with the treatment of women's teams, but their views were barely mentioned and did not inform your editorial. There is no mention of the coaches who coach both men's and women's teams...
...first, to France. Sickert was the main link between European and British painting at the turn of the century: the son of a Danish father and an Anglo-Irish mother, born in Munich, fluent in German and French. When the general histories of modern art mention him at all, it's as a small footnote to the Symbolists and the Postimpressionists, like Bonnard (the nudes in bedrooms) or Toulouse-Lautrec (the music-hall scenes). But one needs to remember that Sickert was slightly older than most of these painters. He was born in 1860; they hardly influenced...