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...deceiving, however, because high technology has an explosive impact on other occupations. Says Jerome Rosow, an Assistant Labor Secretary under President Nixon: "It generates jobs all around like a great catalyst." In Fort Worth, which is part of the so-called Silicon Prairie computer and electronics area of northeast Texas, high tech has added fewer than 10,000 positions since 1979, but it has helped to create service opportunities for another 92,000 workers...
...first game of the Northeast Regional, Weller went four for four and scored three runs. He led off the game with a triple. In Harvard's biggest win of the year--a 6-5, 11-inning victory at Yale. Weller's two-out, game-tying triple in the seventh kept the Crimson alive. His RBI single won the game...
...field and off the field, as captaian of one of the best teams in Harvard history. He led a squad with seven freshmen and just two seniors to a 28-6 record, an Eastern League championship, a Greater Boston League title and third place in the Northeast...
...panic I did when I sat down to take my first hour examination. Others arrived with a worldliness I found unimaginable and a range of experience which persuaded me that the world in which I had grown up, suburban Boston, was very limited indeed. Many coming from outside the Northeast were without any "Eastern" pretensions. Understanding the Harvard admissions process only dimly. I assumed that each of these latter individuals must be truly brilliant...
...violence began in Bhiwandi (pop. 300,000, two-thirds Muslim), a textile town 32 miles northeast of Bombay with a history of Hindu-Muslim enmity: bitter fighting between Hindu and Muslim extremists in 1970 left 150 people dead. Tensions began to rise again in Bhiwandi and other Maharashtra towns earlier this year. One specific incident came in late April when Bal Thackeray, leader of a militant, right-wing Hindu organization called Shiv Sena, gave a speech in which he reportedly maligned the Islamic faith. Muslims retaliated by garlanding a portrait of Thackeray with dirty sandals, an insult to Hindus. Next...