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Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky...
...Planning Committee on Women's Education was set up by Brewster to study plans for co-ed housing. The committee consists of Mrs. Elga Washerman, assistant dean of Yale Graduate School, Henry Chauncey, special assistant to the president, two professors and two students not yet named...
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