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...disability, bike riding remains my favorite pastime at home. Frightened by the brick streets and motorists of Cambridge, I indulge in the bike path near my house that peacefully slices through suburbia. My accessories, however, are not restricted to my Walkman. I also sport sunglasses, a large Red Sox cap and a layer of Coppertone (SPF 300) whose thickness Exxon would envy. (Only recently did I ponder the irony inherent in a name like Coppertone.) Other bikers notice the baseball cap and shake their heads with pity at this displaced northerner...
Meehan and Shays have been frantically rewriting parts of the bill to preserve their coalition. They split the difference on hard-money limits, keeping the cap in House races at $1,000 and letting the caps in Senate and presidential races rise to $2,000. But the AFL-CIO, among others, still has "substantial problems with this bill," says Laurence Gold, its associate general counsel...
...continues to see no growth at all; the needed structural reforms that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has promised will depress economic activity in the short term. And in Germany, Europe's largest economy, the IFO index of business confidence has fallen to its lowest level in two years. To cap it all off, prices are rising in Europe...
Harvard officials were also concerned that since some of the schools which signed the agreement offer merit aid or athletic scholarships, that placing a “cap” on need-based aid—a cap on top of which those other schools could still offer merit or athletic aid—would place Harvard, which does not provide merit or athletic scholarships, at a strategic disadvantage in the admissions process...
...Carolina must seek town approval before embarking on the construction, because the current zoning agreement between the town and university sets a cap on the number of square feet that Carolina can build. The most vocal opponents to Carolina’s expansion are residents of neighborhoods adjacent to the campus, which would lose the undeveloped buffer that now separates them from the school. Other residents merely object on the basis of the impact the plans would have on the town’s traffic patterns or environment. They don’t want the development to destroy the small...