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Another problem with the computer, according to students, is the steep price--$699 for the bare-bones unit. For that money, many students would rather invest in a more practical unit, according to Harvard Computer Society president Jeff Tarr...
...radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike or, for that matter, with a humvee (the ultimate gearmobile, short of James Bond's Aston Martin with its ejecto seat...
...carry enough water home to get through the day. Every drain spout in the city has a collection bucket under it, and when rains come, the buckets are jealously guarded by old men and women grateful for water that does not have to be dragged up the city's steep hills. "It is all we do. We look for water. We look for wood. We try to feed the family, and then we begin the process all over again," says one woman who has struggled up the embankment with...
...Producer Price index showed no increase for May, diminishing inflation fears that were set off by steep increases during March and April. The steadiness of prices should discourage any impulse by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to relieve inflationary pressures...
...Mistake or mischance, there is nothing useful to say. This is not because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...