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When Moura has time after his first job, which usually lasts until mid-afternoon, he often drives across town to help his father earn a little extra cash...
...women are expected to bring home the Ivy League title—which would require victories against the remaining three Ivy League schools—automatically qualifying them for the NCAA tournament in mid...
Such purity of conduct is hard to maintain in a permissive era. In the mid-'70s, West Point was rocked by a cheating scandal; 152 cadets were dismissed or re signed after plagiarizing on a take-home exam. Whole companies of cadets had gone "cool on honor," an internal investigation found, in part because the honor code had become "trivialized," used as a tool to enforce petty regulations...
...Grunwald, Corporate Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan. In the past seven years, Deng, who was once sent into internal exile as a "capitalist-roader," has introduced broad and dramatic economic reforms that have decentralized decision-making and placed more reliance on free-market forces. In mid-September, he consolidated political backing for his reforms with significant personnel changes in which many of China's aging leaders were retired and younger officials moved up in the power structure...
Indeed, unaided viewing from most places in the U.S. may be difficult or even impossible, at least until mid-December. Halley's, now some 65 million miles from earth, can be seen, however, with a little help from a air pair of good binoculars (recommended power: 7 x 50), assuming the observer finds a location free of city light, air pollution and overcast skies. Viewing will become increasingly difficult as the moon waxes (next full moon: Nov. 27), then will become better again early in December. But the comet, now traveling toward the sun at 70,000 m.p.h., will...