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...places, the reports fit together like jigsaw puzzles. For example, Michigan had a larger than average decrease in median income, yet had fewer people below the poverty line. Frank Stafford, a University of Michigan economist, explains that workers in that state's high-tech sector took a disproportionately serious hit. That would tend to affect those in middle-income brackets more than low-income workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bottom Line On Those Poverty Numbers | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...Though they serve as a gateway to the U.S. tech economy, some corners of the West Coast ports still operate as if they're stuck in the early 1900s, costing an estimated $1 billion in inefficiencies each year. Many clerks carry clipboards, tracking transactions with grease pencil and paper. When they use computers, they usually insist on re-entering all data themselves, even though it could easily be transmitted electronically from other ports. Modern ports in Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore move three times as many trucks through their terminals every hour as their West Coast counterparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoil Ports | 10/5/2002 | See Source »

...they are led by singer-guitarist Nate Albert, formerly of Boston legends the Mighty Mighty Bosstones; album drummer Joe Sirois still plays for the Bosstones, though he is replaced on tour by the capable Jamie Vavra. Guitarist Johnny Rioux was once the ‘Tones’ guitar tech, and bassist Mickey Welsh is hardly anonymous either: he used to play with Weezer. The band came together informally last fall, but found themselves a band when their studio sessions were reported by VH1. Their first release, Osaka, was issued this past April by the newly formed independent label Fenway...

Author: By Nathaniel D. Myers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room For Squares | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...Lehmann Brothers. Are our faculty urging Harvard to pull its funds away from the infamous “Cheeseburger of Death to Palestinians” project? Or is their “political” position an effort to divest from Israel’s banks, medical companies, high-tech industry, economy and people...

Author: By Avi D. Heilman, | Title: Divestment Aimed at Wrong Companies | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...tournament provided valuable match experience before next week’s ECAC Championships in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The event is the first team competition of the fall season and will pit Harvard against potent squads from Brown and Virginia Tech...

Author: By Yiwey Shieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Injuries Don’t Slow M. Tennis | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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