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...started its "DIPSCAM" investigation three years ago when it unearthed its first diploma mill, "South Eastern University" in Greenville, S.C., said Robert L. Pence, agent in charge of the FBI in North Carolina. Since then, the FBI has discovered 41 more diploma mills in 15 states. But so far it has only indicted two operators...
...built cars are still selling 20% faster than they were a year ago, and other signs point to a continuation of strong consumer demand. The Reserve Board reported last week that installment debt increased a record $4.84 billion in July. Said Eckstein: "There's not much in the mill to suggest that consumer confidence is going to take a dive...
...approved by line authority at the top, the State Planning Commission in Peking. Should such a committee have to decide about toilets? We had a factory in Hebei that produced good worsteds that people wanted for suits. But the plan called for the mill to produce coarse woolens." So the mill met its quotas in coarse woolens, and they piled up in the warehouses. All over China, Peking set quotas and ignored what the people, the market, demanded...
...particularly gruesome example of the newly popular self-torture called the triathlon: a 1.5-mile swim in cold and swirling water from San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park, a 20-mile bicycle trek that crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally a 14.5-mile run from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach across Mount Tamalpais...
...idea that infants can start acquiring an education has tempted ambitious parents for centuries. At the age of three, John Stuart Mill learned Greek, and Mozart was playing the harpsichord. Both were taught by their hard-driving fathers. Today, New York City's fashionable nursery schools not only interview two year olds (and charge their anxious parents $1,200 a year for two mornings of schooling a week), but they also report applications outrunning openings by as much...