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Because of his admiration for America and his love of Harvard, Deutsch says he is reluctant to end his year-round residence in Cambridge. In his position in Berlin each spring, however, he will have more resources than at Harvard--more computer time, more secretarial help, and more research assistants. Also, he adds, "Knowing how things have gone terribly wrong in Germany, I would like to help their social sciences...
Students would never have enough expertise to even compare with the full-time, year-round staff to set up a budge. Students lack an adequate sense of the overall university goals. CHUL already has student representatives, and they review the budget, especially that of room rent...
...work for Coast Guard icebreakers, is a highly touchy issue. The Mac's mission is part of a seven-year, $27 million experimental program, now in its last year, to determine whether or not winter navigation is practical. The folks in the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, believe it is. Giant ore boats now cost $50 million to build, and the industry wants to use them all year for a better return on its money. Year-round navigation also provides a steadier flow of taconite to steel furnaces, eliminating the need for the old, pre-winter stockpiling...
...breath." McGee, of course, is the swashbuckling hero of 18 John D. MacDonald mystery novels who lives on a houseboat, The Busted Flush, that he won in a poker game. His aversion to structured, land-based predictability is shared by an ever growing number of Americans who live year-round on their boats...
...fact, most live-aboards are solid middle class, with a high proportion of divorced people (hence the number of boats with names like Second Life and New Beginning). At New York's 79th Street boat basin, skippers of the 80-strong year-round fleet include a drug-company officer, a masseuse, the owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment...