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...Last year, the caps weren't evenly done. The incoming cap was fixed at eight percent this year," she said...
...most Harvard lecture classes students who don't understand the course material can hide in the back of the room. But in Physics 11b, McKay Professor of Applied Physics Eric Mazur has created something of an electronic dunce cap...
...Examples: the Administration wants to ensure generous coverage for mental illness, and it is considering price controls to hold down the costs of extending medical coverage to those not now insured. Options include a short-term freeze on prices charged by doctors, hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes, and a cap on insurance- premium increases. In addition, Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the health- care task force, told members of Congress that a tax might be imposed on benefits provided by employers to workers in excess of some basic package -- a proposal she had earlier disavowed. Finally, the Administration accepts...
...police protection, prisons and prosecutors, leaving just 2.3% for public defense services. "We aren't being given the same weapons," says Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's like trying to deal with smart bombs when all you've got is a couple of cap pistols...
...supply house. For little more than $400, buy several 100-lb. bags of urea and some bottles of nitric and sulfuric acid. Mix the urea and acids into a thick paste, put the glop in plastic bags, then pack them in a cardboard box. Next attach either a blasting cap or a detonator made of some batteries, an alarm clock and a container of nitroglycerine. But be very, very careful. "If it spills on the floor, and you scuff your shoe in it," says an explosives expert, "you could make...