Christmas gift mail options amid UPS strike
Even with a nationwide UPS strike affecting 15 eastern states shipments remain possible. Postal Service deadlines moved up by a week. alternatives from Amtrak Santa Express to Greyhound bus options offer time-saving delivery at higher costs. Amtrak serves 300 cities from eight origin hubs. Greyhound quotes $5.70 for under 10 pounds New York to Chicago.
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Computer system to aid birth defect diagnosis worldwide
A testing computer system links university hospitals and remote clinics to help doctors identify infants with any of the 1400 known birth defects. The project, a joint effort by MIT Tufts New England Medical Center and the March of Dimes, will track defect patterns to spot drug virus or chemical hazards. Doctors worldwide can access it via telephone lines.
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Jackson attacks Carter transition as farce
Civil rights leader Jesse L. Jackson said Carter's transition committee is a farce and blacks are excluded from the president elects inner councils while federal jobs are handed out. He urged a meeting with Carter and key black leaders including Richard Hatcher Basil Patterson and Vernon Jordan.
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Steve Ford Helps Unload White House Christmas Tree
President Ford's son Steve joined Ken Guenther of Black River Falls to unload a 21 foot balsam fir gifted to the White House. He climbed onto a pickup in the front driveway with Park Service staff and helped secure the tree.
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