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...stunned when, after my thirtieth phone call to the airport, someone told me that I would have to come and pick up my own bags. I had always assumed that in cases of lost luggage, the airline takes full responsibility for delivering your belongings promptly to your door. Furthermore, they are supposed to compensate you with petty cash for your first few nights sans toothbrush and clothing...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM PARIS | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

According to Hung, a glass of unfprocessed soy milk can contain nine times as much fat as a glass of skim, less protein and just one-thirtieth the amount of calcium...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Soy to the World | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the '80s provided only one service--24-hour, acute hospital care," he says. "It became apparent to payers that treatment usually ended, particularly with substance abuse, when the limit was reached on one's insurance coverage. Patients always got better on the thirtieth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REHAB CENTERS RUN DRY | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...Boston Ballet has chosen to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary season with the commemoration of the man who set a new standard for ballet music, the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Entranced by the "majesty, magic, and imagination" of Tchaikovsky's work, Artistic Director Bruce Marks has selected ballets for the 1993-94 season which feature the breadth and "dance-ability" of Tchaikovsky's "approachable" rhythms...

Author: By Edith A. Replogie, | Title: Swan Lake Keeps Neck In | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...object is invisible, detectable only by its gravitational pull on surrounding gases. Calculation pegs its mass at about 100 billion times the mass of the sun, or about as much as the entire Milky Way. Yet it is squeezed into a mere 3,000 light-years, only about one-thirtieth the diameter of the Milky Way. The mass could come from tightly packed stars, but then their light should be blazingly bright, contend the report's authors. The only other choices: a black hole of unprecedented proportions, or some even more peculiar form of matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery of The Cosmic Monster | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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