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November 29, 1973: Harvard allows secretaries to leave work before dark after a secretary has a brick thrown in her face...
...collapse of government authority will blight the land and its people for generations is unfolding at the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, where, like Femmy, thousands of people work in illegal gold mines and processing units. When Jakarta's word still counted, the army would have thrown out the miners?as they did at other similar sites?and allowed Australian firm Aurora Gold, which had won rights to mine the area, to go about its business. Even critics of the mining company say its modern equipment would have produced a fraction of the mercury currently being dumped. Instead...
...went to Yaddo, the writers' colony in upstate New York, to finish it. But after I'd been there 24 hours and read through it, I knew there wasn't a book there. I either had to go home--which I couldn't do because my friends had thrown me a big going-away party--or I had to figure out something else. I went into Saratoga Springs and bought a bottle of Scotch. How could I have spent two years working on something with so little value...
This is not a typical response to new technology. U.S. schools lately have thrown boatloads of money at software and hardware--often with dubious results. Many school computers aren't effectively linked to the Internet, and teachers often aren't trained in e-learning. But Towns benefited from the struggles of others...
...lower and whose suvs will get more mileage. Toyota and Honda are spending billions on hybrid engine cars, while companies like GE and Whirlpool are developing more efficient low-BTU mousetraps, like dishwashers that can be programmed to click on in the middle of the night. A few bones thrown its way, and business would surely do more...