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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alcohol. For the discriminating palate, the five-year-old Moet and Chandon champagne lists for $30.49 at the Harvard Provision Shop (94 Mt. Auburn). For smaller wallets, they offer Cavas Hill champagne at $6.99. If you're looking for that distinctive, and yet inexpensive, alcoholic gift, there's always Harvard 350th commemorative white wine...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...offer of about $900 was made for one of thepaintings still missing," said Rhinelander. "I'dlove to have it back so I could sell it," shesaid. Rhinelander and Johnson work as ahousekeeper and waiter, respectively, to supporttheir painting careers...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Anonoymous Caller Returns Artwork; Three Murals Still Lost, Artists Say | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...month. For those subscribers who already own personal computers, Baseline will provide the necessary software for the IBM PC (free) and the Macintosh ($50). But more than a million of the PC owners already subscribe to successful American videotext operations like CompuServe and the Source, which offer a wide variety of services -- and in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Punching Up Wine and Foie Gras | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Willomenia Williams of Los Angeles is the mother of eight children, fathered by three different men, none of whom has provided much help in raising his offspring. She gets $698 a month in AFDC and $125 in food stamps, more than any of her former boyfriends could offer. "If they can't do their part," she says, "I don't think they should be coming around." For a while, Williams lived in a private shelter run by a group called Parents of Watts. Alice Harris, a woman known for her ready smile and generosity, runs the program. "Of course welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Native Sons | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Some of the most successful projects are those that offer job training. The Watts Labor Community Action Committee employs 600 people and runs on a $7.4 million annual budget. Each year the organization trains as many as 400 young men and women between the ages of 18 and 26 and boasts a 90% placement rate in such jobs as security guard, bank clerk and computer operator. Chicago's nonprofit Safer Foundation helps get jobs for about 60% of its clients. But for kids who go to Safer, young offenders with an average of ten arrests in their short lives, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Native Sons | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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