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...Timely Beeper, also known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went...
...Nine thousand undergraduates currently live in campus housing, according to Christopher Queen, associate dean of students. Four thousand undergraduates reside in off-campus housing...
Presently, the lymphocytes must be extracted from the patient and grown in a culture of his own tissues, making mass production difficult and taking often three or four weeks and several thousand dollars to complete for a single patient...
...been an exciting year in Providence. The usually staid banking community of a few hundred thousand has been rocked by scandal after scandal...
...KIND OF MOBILIZATION which the divestiture movement has at times rallied must surely be the envy of many other Harvard student groups. No one can argue with the two causes espoused by less than 100 people last week. One thousand letters is surely impressive, and, no matter how hard the Soviet authorities try, information on their genocide continues to leak out in forums like the one last week. But the fact remains that gigantic, systematic injustices around the world go virtually unnoticed on our campus...