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Another departing Washington official is Agriculture Secretary John Block, who announced that he would leave office in mid-February. One of just four of Ronald Reagan's original Cabinet appointees still on the job, Block, 50, is a likable West Pointer and Illinois hog farmer who had the misfortune of serving during the worst years for U.S. farming since the Depression. Farm exports dropped nearly 30% and land values eroded, bringing down debt-laden farmers and their creditors. Block leaves with a victory: the 1985 farm bill. While extending the farm subsidies the Administration wanted...
...errant laser pointer will reveal that FAS Dean William C. Kirby is really a hologram projected from the sundial on Mass. Hall, which means that it is physically impossible for him to give interviews to Crimson reporters except in specially designated areas of the Harvard campus during certain times of the month. It will also explain Kirby’s reluctance to shake hands, eat, and smile in front of faculty and students...
Sitting outside the Tannery on Brattle Street with his dog, a German pointer named Penny, and his tuxedo cat Charlie, Ken O’Brien, a 51 year-old homeless Cambridge resident, agrees with Belsky’s assessment...
...green laser pointer may be great for punctuating presentations, but mind the eyes. A Mayo Clinic study found that retinas can be harmed by exposures as brief as 60 seconds...
...Peace Museum now, Kawamoto uses a long wooden pointer to indicate, in a large circular panorama, the route of the rest of his escape. Above the center of the panorama a bright red ball representing the hypocenter hangs by a cord. Kawamoto touches the pointer to the area of the playground, then moves it out into the city, away from the hypocenter, toward the Kyobashi River and the Miyuki Bridge...