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Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) is the best for browsing. It has a wide selection of just-released hardcovers and new paperbacks. The strongest stock is in women's studies, black studies and sociology. And its used books--it has an entire floor downstairs--are a plus. It usually has some of the most frequently used textbooks for half-price or less, and a lot of good fiction for less than a dollar a book...
...Mainz, West Germany, Bush delivered his strongest speech since the Inauguration. He put the U.S. squarely in favor of the unification of Europe, addressing widespread pressure to lower the Continent's political as well as military tensions: "The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free." Turning specifically to the changing shape of some East bloc nations, Bush argued that their "passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. There cannot be a common European home until all within are free to move from room to room." But, he said, "let the Soviets know that our goal...
...perhaps the strongest action yet, Senator Albert Gore last week introduced a bill that would empower local communities to set rates for basic cable services. To increase competition among cable-system operators, the Tennessee Democrat would allow telephone companies to enter the cable business. In addition, the bill asked the Federal Communications Commission to study the cross-ownership of cable networks and systems by the same companies. Said Gore, a frequent critic of the cable industry: "Deregulation has allowed too many cable companies to gouge consumers and left too many consumers as unprotected victims...
...information, in part "for legal reasons." But Robert Huggins, a Stanford materials scientist, had no legal qualms. He reported excess heat from a cold-fusion device tucked into a red picnic cooler. Because he performed a control experiment to rule out a conventional chemical reaction, this was the strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded physicist with the Italian National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what has been dubbed "Frascati fusion," for the town near Rome where his team detected the neutron signature of cold fusion. This, plus other announcements from India and South America...
...showdown," Harvard Coach Ed Krass said. "This is Princeton's strongest team in quite some time. It's exciting for both teams. The winner of the match will share the Ivy title. It's championship day for both teams...