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Anyone notice the unusual hand formation of President Carter's in the picture of his walk to the White House [Jan. 31]? You can be sure that all readers who are either deaf or who work with the deaf will recognize the very special and endearing sign that translates...
The word "positive" translates as evidence of life processes in this summary by Harold Klein, biology team leader of the Viking mission, published about the time that the first U.S. lander went to work on the surface of Mars. Yet last November, after these same life-seeking experiments aboard both...
ABC officials prefer to compare the average Nielsen figure for Barbara's first seven weeks on the job, 10.5, with the program's average rating for the same period a year ago, 9.9-which translates into a gain of more than 700,000 viewers. But again, CBS has...
In this sense, of course, Equal Times seems to fit more neatly into the confines of the so-called New Feminism than any other women's newspaper around Boston and Cambridge. My recommendation is to steer clear of it despite its appealing look and to stick to the old-style...
All together, the Dow had worried down 90 points since the slide began in mid-September. That represented an 8% drop in share values inside of a month, which translates into a paper loss of $105 billion for the millions of Americans who own stocks directly or through mutual funds...