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Wesleyan University has reversed an earlier policy and admitted students to the class of 1987 regardless of their financial situation. The change resulted in a six-year high in the number of Black applicants and graphically demonstrated what many have been saying for a long time money makes a difference in where people go to college...
...that is reversed and flattened. For the first time a mirror is available that gives a "positive" reflection: no longer, for example, will people who part their hair on the left see the part as being on the righthand side, as a regular mirror shows it. Developed over a six-year period by two former M.I.T. engineering students, George Lechter and David Eckel, it is called the Really Me mirror and retails for about $50. Some 5,000 have been sold, many to speech therapists, who use them to guide patients' mouth exercises, and to plastic surgeons...
...this technology-driven business, there is big money to be made by companies that merely rent beepers and by the common carriers that transmit the signals. The Li'l Bugger, for instance, costs Metromedia $150, but will generate $600 in income from rentals and broadcast charges over its six-year life...
This time, the school tried a six-year curriculum involving two years of basic science at the Medical School, two years of training in clinical dentistry, and the option to return to a Harvard-affiliated hospital for two years of clinical medical training and a medical degree...
...purchase, a New Yorker would save the price in lease fees in only twelve months. According to a New York City department of consumer affairs study, if all New Yorkers decided to buy their phones rather than lease, they would save $600 million over the six-year life of the phones...