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...anything be nuttier than a fruit cake? Try the Pentagon's recipe for making one. MIL-F-14499F, the Defense Department's specifications for holiday fruitcake for its 2.2 million servicemen and-women, consumes 18 pages vs. the two-thirds of a page for standard dark fruitcake in the classic Joy of Cooking. Even for the organization that created 22 pages of specs for a "trap, mouse," and 16 pages for a "whistle, plastic," the recipe for "fruitcake, canned," represents a point, high...
...judges often do not include in that term such intangible assets as future earning capacity, professional education and medical insurance. These assets, they argue, usually benefit the husband but are acquired in part through the wife's sacrifice of her own career opportunities. "Let the wife share in the standard of living that she helped to build," says Stanford University Sociology Professor Lenore Weitzman...
...considered, applicants must be U.S. citizens and have five or more years of full-time professional experience reporting contemporary events in print or on television or radio. There is no age limit, and aspirants who reach the final selection process will be screened by a new, less stringent medical standard established by NASA for such civilian projects: free of disease, injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training; eyesight correctible to at least 20/40 in the better eye; able to hear a whispered voice from 3 ft. away (hearing aids are permissible); and a blood...
...fears were exaggerated; the news-gathering process does not appear to have frozen up. Moreover, it can be reasonably argued that in order to prove the press has recklessly or knowingly published a false hood--the legal standard that public figures must meet to win a libel case--it is necessary to probe a journalist's thinking...
...problem stems from an official list of simplified characters, issued in 1977, that was recently abandoned because it caused confusion and was often inaccurate. The government now also advocates greater use of standard spoken Chinese in an effort to "enhance communication within China as a whole," where several hundred different dialects are spoken. COLOMBIA Gun Battle In Bogot?...