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...shelter for Cambridge's homeless population, to be staffed partly by Harvard students, will open today or tomorrow in the basement of University Lutheran Church near Kirkland House, although Cambridge officials have not granted it a permit...
President Reagan last eight formally proposed a new form of tax shelter for parents of college students, but the plan received only a lukewarm reception from officials at Harvard and spokesmen for national association representing higher education...
...work at home. But only 31 % said they would prefer to do so themselves. Most work no longer involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries, requires the stimulation of personal contact in the exchange of ideas: sometimes organized conferences, sometimes simply what is called "the schmooze factor...
...lucky the U.S. is to have aggressive reporters and intense media competition, what with the glut of sappy stories that appear daily. For the people of India and the other developing nations, however, a free press remains merely an ideal, dwarfed by more pressing needs--like securing food, shelter, and adequate health. As a result, Western countries control close to 90 percent of the world's communication power, by one estimate, and the world media has come to look at poorer nations through Western-tinted eyes...
...explains the change: "We have gone from being a fortress church to a lighthouse church. When we were an immigrant church, we put a wall around the people, and we did a good job of protecting them. We maintained their faith. But we could no longer stay in our shelter. We let down the drawbridge and crossed the moat, and we're out in the mainstream of America...