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...reckoning for the computer is nigh. Under a bill signed last week by President Ford, a creditor will be required to answer a customer's inquiry about a charge within 30 days. While the discussions go on, the creditor is forbidden to send out any heavy-handed letters. Should a company fail to explain or correct its bill within 90 days, the charge will be forfeited if it is $50 or less. What is more, the harried consumer can bring suit for civil damages and collect a minimum of $100 from a firm that violates the act. To give...
...half-life of a quarter million years. But asbestos has a nearly infinite half-life and unlike Plutonium 239, the air-borne fibers cannot be buried in salt mines far below the earth's surface to remove them from populated areas. The danger is ubiquitous, increasing and well-nigh invisible...
Offensively, Harvard has serious problems, at least at then moment. Trying to fill the sports vacated by record-shattering forward, All-Ivy, All-American Chris Papagianis; the league leader in assists. All-Ivy Bent Hinze; and starter Dragan Vujovic may be a well-nigh impossible assignment for head coach Bruce Munro, now in his 26th year at Harvard...
...world tends to pay its dues in a rush, and so it has done with Kelly. The MOMA show is accompanied by two new books on him. One text, by Artforum Editor John Coplans, is well-nigh impenetrable and reads as though creakily translated from German, though it is relieved by fine color plates (Abrams; $35). The other, the show's catalogue, is by Art Historian Eugene Goossen. It is what museum introductions should be but rarely are-warm and scholarly, steadily focused on Kelly's own experiences and their growth into form, and mercifully free from...
...started hearing rumors about myself from the slightest of acquaintances that I began to realize the extent of my notoriety. And those rumors were rich. I'd learned that I was the biggest bitch to hit the 'Cliffe; that I was the most promiscuous miss in town, well-nigh a nymphomaniac; that I was, get this, a Moaner, a Screamer, a Scratcher; that I was the Body-by-Fisher Fisher (I wasn't) and as a baby heiress I'd been promised to a son of my daddy's tycoon pal; that I was a Lesbian...