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...Judiciary Committee has tentatively scheduled a vote to recommend Thornburgh for Wednesday afternoon, according to an aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Ma.), who chaired the hearings in the absence of Sen. Joseph Biden...
...activities, from developing computer equipment and other technology to fit each individual's special day-to-day needs, to helping to create curricula and learning programs for such students. Rose says that equipment needs to be specially adapted for each individual, and that there are no standard instruments to recommend...
...July 16. That evening, according to U.S. intelligence sources, there was a meeting in Tehran of senior political officials, including Montazeri, Rafsanjani, Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi and Ahmed Khomeini, the Ayatullah's eldest son. With Montazeri providing crucial support to Rafsanjani, his rival, the group decided to recommend that the elder Khomeini agree to the cease-fire. The next day they convened again and received what Rafsanjani described as a "historic and important decision of the Imam," presumably similar to the message later read on Iranian airwaves...
...literary life's ragged edges. The unpublished writer who aggressively demands that Bradbury read her last seven novels (enclosed) is turned aside with a compliment ("Be reassured, a masochistic and paranoid temperament is a well-known sign of a great writer") and a practical suggestion ("May I recommend a pseudonym -- something like John le Carre"). The young academic confronting his first job interview is reminded that he must dress both down (there is always a raging egalitarian on the committee who resents Oxbridge college ties) and up (someone else inevitably believes there is a correlation between white shirts and intelligence...
...destruction of cells in the center of the retina. The condition, known as macular degeneration, is a leading cause of blindness in the elderly. Unlike cataracts, it is not correctable. While acknowledging that the evidence linking sunlight to cataracts and retinal damage is not conclusive, many doctors now recommend that adults, and children too, use sunglasses that absorb nearly 100% of the ultraviolet rays...