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...after having worked exclusively as a conservator, Cohn made the switch to the curatorial department, where she has worked since...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art Museums Acting Director Named | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

...they will stay put for a few months. Consider a home-equity loan to pay off the mortgage; it amounts to a refi with fewer fees. Best bet: a 15-year fixed-rate. If you have a $150,000 balance at 7.5% on a 30-year mortgage, you could switch to a 15-year at 5.5% for an extra $175 a month, saving $157,000 in interest costs. It may make sense to refi one 30-year with another if the rate drops just three-quarters of a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is it Time to Refinance Again? | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...time, while she went out to work. We managed. But what a waste. A man who had been a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, surviving the horrors of the fighting on Guadalcanal, slaughtered because some twit driver forgot his dimmer switch. Over the half-century since that night, I've wondered what it might have been like to pronounce the word Dad rather than just write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roads to Ruin | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

Formerly involved with the textile industry, Feldstein decided it was time to switch to the book business when his personal library hit 25,000 volumes...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Specialty Book Store Opens in Square | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

...returned to work in the optical-media sector, designing in-line machines to mass-produce all types of dvds. His company has invented a type of compression-molding technology called the E-Clamp. Existing DVD-production machines require operators to change molds every time they want to switch production to a different type of CD or DVD--say, from single-sided discs to double-sided ones--at a cost of about $50,000 a change. With the E-Clamp, the same mold can be used to make a DVD or CD in any format...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mister Lean | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

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