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...school students can earn as much as $1200 a week in jobs with large corporate firms in large cities and about $800 a week in smaller cities, saidLisa Spar, a second-year law student who lobbiedfor the grants...
Public interest groups, however, often do nothave sufficient funds to pay a summer intern,although some private law firms that specialize inpublic interest law are able to pay interns amaximum of $250 a week, Spar said...
...west coasts. They initialed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, linking their two countries in law enforcement. They also noted that Canada will participate in the $8 billion manned space-station program planned by the U.S. for the mid-1990s. Canada is no stranger to space technology, since Ontario-based Spar Aerospace Ltd. built the mechanical arm used in the U.S. space shuttle...
According to Dr. James Spar, geriatric psychiatrist, Reagan's slow response time "is the kind of forgetfulness that when you reach back for a fact, it isn't there. But 20 minutes later, it comes back to you." Unfortunately, by that time the war is over...
Reagan has aged less visibly in office than most of his modern predecessors. Indeed, his robust example may undermine the notion that age necessarily saps vigor. Said Spar: "Nowadays people between 65 and 75 are statistically more like young people than they are like old people." At about age 75, many people cross a vaguely defined line between what gerontologists call "young-old" and "old-old." They become less vigorous and more infirm. But doctors caution that the effects of aging vary greatly from person to person, and that Reagan is on the young side...