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...information, however, is not included on all the tags. Says a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration: "If you're a consumer and there's a rack of sunglasses, you usually have no way of telling the amount of ultraviolet transmission." The agency is now considering proposals to establish mandatory labeling standards for the sunglass industry. Ultimately, say experts, the best solution may be a simple rating system similar to the numerical system now used with sunscreens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Do Your Shades Do the Job? | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...considered on-campus housing. Officially, only men were allowed to live there, although at least one woman would climb the fire escape every night to visit her boyfriend. In keeping with the policy of the rest of the college, coats and ties were required at dinner. "We kept a rack of tattered coats and ties by the door," said Jonathan G. Dickinson '65-'67, "and people would just fling on a coat and [loop on] a tie on their way to dinner...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: A Harvard Reunion, Co-Op Style | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...located near a phone jack and an electrical outlet, with a second computer contestant named BP. BP runs on a Compaq PC, a crowd pleaser with its flashy electronic chessboard. Hitech is not even physically present. An ungainly-looking brute, with circuit boards that poke out of a metal rack like truncated wings, Hitech remains in Pittsburgh, hidden away in a laboratory on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, where Berliner teaches computer science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Playing Hitech Computer Chess | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...brightest of a new political generation. The Harvard-educated Viet Nam veteran had it all: a subtle and supple mind tempered by a self-aware sense of humor, the savvy of a Southern bull breeder mixed with the polish of a Georgetown Prince Charming. Yet somehow he managed to rack up a woeful string of defeats in the Northern states until he finally limped away last week, perhaps permanently bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nova That Stayed Nebulous | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...order to get their shot at the Big Green, the ruggers must rack up a couple of wins in the first preliminary rounds...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Women Ruggers Get Ready for N.E. Tournament | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

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