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...analysis showed that by training Pine Street's men and women to sort the clothing by size and type, the donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer of 1998, some 50 people have completed a six-month training program at Pine Street's sprawling warehouse in Boston's Jamaica Plain, handling about 5,000 lbs. of clothing a day. For the first time, the operation is becoming self-sustaining, and, says Schorr, "we are now funding a training program that we might otherwise have...
...Kilner '01 forgot his six-month anniversary with Sarah H. Gerber '02...on Valentine's Day, no less. The junior Winthrop resident spent the holiday downloading replays of the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk contest...Kelly D. Preston '00 re-gifted a rollneck sweater to her first-year boy-toy Samuel J. LeVander '03. "What he doesn't know won't hurt him" confided Kelly...Matt Geller '02 ran over girlfriend Amy Linder '02 with his bike on the way to Physics lecture...
...stronger. Nearly a third of the home-mortgage market is written in ARMs now, up from 11% a year ago. Is an ARM right for you? In general, the shorter the time you plan on staying put, the better the case for an ARM. They are commonly available in six-month and one-year varieties or hybrids that are fixed for one, three, five, seven and 10 years. The shorter the term, the lower the initial interest rate...
This year, the process through which the major American political parties nominate their presidential candidates began earlier and will be resolved more quickly than ever before. What once was a six-month series of debates and votes has been condensed into a cross-country cacophony of sound bites and TV ads that began with the Iowa caucuses on January 24 and will probably be sewn up six weeks later, on March 7, when 16 states hold primaries...
With the pain of the six-month anniversary behind them, the families were finding joy in taking baby steps: Kacey Ruegsegger, who was a world-class quarter-horse rider before the blast shattered her right arm and shoulder, is back in the saddle again, competing even though after bone transplants and three operations she still might never have full use of her arm. Richard Castaldo, whose eight gunshot wounds left him a paraplegic, has spent four months in the hospital and suffered through seven operations, but now he's back at Columbine. Every day a special lift hoists Richard...