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...Elvis fans out there, the King has been spotted at a store near you. The controversial Elvis commemorative stamp will be released for sale in the Cambridge Postal Store at noon today...
...stamp, which features a young, trim Elvis, represents "the first time that a rock and roll star has been acknowledged by the Postal Service," said Michael D. Hannon, supervisor of mail at the Cambridge Post Office...
Investigators then zeroed in on House members whose stamp purchases seemed excessive. Rostenkowski was the hands-down leader with $29,672 worth of stamps -- enough to mail 50 first-class letters every day of the six-year period under review by the grand jury. Joe Kolter and Austin Murphy, both Pennsylvania Democrats, were also big customers at the House post office...
...sting operation that led to former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's drug conviction, last week described the probe simply as "an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations relating to operations of the House post office and efforts to obstruct that investigation." TIME has learned, however, that investigators believe the stamp purchases make up only a small part of a larger scheme to launder campaign funds and convert them for personal use. Subpoenas issued in the case have made it clear that investigators are looking into whether lawmakers or their aides illegally channeled campaign contributions through the House post office...
...part of the newest spin in computing: taking off-the-shelf personal computers and giving them a personal stamp. Workers tired of staring at the same old screens can now choose from a growing shelf of software that lets them customize just about any feature of their machines, from the color and texture of the screen display to the design of the windows, buttons, cursors and arrows that appear on it. The trend passed a milestone this fall when Berkeley Systems' After Dark, a screen-saver program that paints idle computer screens with swimming fish, flying toasters and other fanciful...