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...just two years, software employment has soared from 95,000 to 130,000 jobs in Massachusetts, a state that has suffered some serious high-tech busts in the past at now moribund places like Wang. Starting salaries, which ranged from the high 20s to the high 30s a year ago, now start in the high 30s and go up to $50,000 a year. "We have a wild market at the moment," says Joyce Plotkin, executive director of the Massachusetts Software Council, who predicts more double-digit employment growth over the next two years...
...about a rising incidence of HIV-positive teenage girls, who get the virus from infected men. They talk about a "second wave" among younger gay men. For those over, say, 35, tending to a sick friend or being tended has been a nearly universal experience. For those in their 20s, it's a rarity. When the epidemic becomes unreal, the libido is unbolted. Jason is a 19-year-old Los Angeles sales clerk who learned that he was infected at 16. There were AIDS education programs at his high school, but the message never hit home. "You're young...
...summer in local bars and restaurants. Agents traced the bills to a print shop in the basement of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and last month arrested four suspects, including three Columbia dropouts (ahem, they were not journalism students). According to the agents, the suspects taped real 20s to sheets of paper and fed them into a high-quality color copier. Authorities said the men, one of whom worked at the little plant, cranked out more than $85,000 in counterfeit notes, including $12,000 that landed in store tills. That may be one of the most backhanded...
...work is research being conducted at the New York State Institute for Basic Research into the more devastating Werner's-like disorder known as progeria. People suffering from progeria grow old precociously too, but at a much faster rate; they are claimed by the infirmities of age in their 20s or teens. W. Ted Brown, chairman of the Institute's Department of Human Genetics, believes that progeria, like Werner's, is triggered by a single mutated gene. That genetic miswiring, however, may stimulate activity in the countless other genes that play a role in aging. "Understanding all the genes," says...
...Chicago, the 1975 musical about a '20s nightclub floozy who becomes a celebrity after shooting her lover, doesn't really fall into that category. Artifacts from the '70s (the comeback of bell-bottoms notwithstanding) haven't aged long enough to evoke much nostalgia. What's more, many critics found Chicago too dark and cynical to begin with; though the show ran for two years, it failed to win a single Tony Award, shut out by that feel-good steamroller A Chorus Line...