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...last year, the reduction has * been smaller than in some neighboring Southern states; much of the industry has tended to cluster in the predominantly white northwestern part of the state. The most surprising part of Arkansas' racial performance is that the state is one of only two (Alabama is the other) that do not have a law banning racial discrimination in employment, and one of nine with no statute outlawing housing discrimination. Clinton supported a state civil rights bill in last year's legislative session, but opposition from small businesses that feared it would be too costly kept it from...
...Surge has the best defense this year, and great defense means victories. The are led by #1 World League pick DE George Bethune (Alabama) and RB Doug DuBose (Nebraska...
...comedy that makes the rest of the audience laugh and cheer. Am I blind? Or are they seeing things? With the new hit MY COUSIN VINNY, we vote for seeing things. This fish-outta-wautta farce plops a rude Italo-American (Joe Pesci) into the cracker barrel of an Alabama town to defend his cousin (Ralph Macchio) on a murder rap. Pesci, a vacuum-packed version of all Three Stooges, struts and mugs, but gets most of his laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair by Anthony Sorrentino). Other good actors are strewn along the winding story line...
...illness to caring for chronic maladies like heart disease and cancer -- a shift that has sent health-care costs skyward. "There's a growing appreciation of the need to find the most economical way to treat and prevent chronic disease," notes Dr. Charles Butterworth Jr. of the University of Alabama. "Food and vitamins are not that expensive." Calculates Tufts' Blumberg: "We could save billions of dollars if we could delay the onset of - chronic diseases by as little as 10 years...
Another enticing finding reported last January established a link between folic acid and prevention of cervical cancer. According to a study at the University of Alabama's medical school, women who have been exposed to a virus that causes this cancer are five times as likely to develop precancerous lesions if they have low blood levels of folic acid. The discovery may help explain why cervical cancer is more common among the poor. Indigent women usually eat few vegetables and fruits, which are prime sources of folate. Says Butterworth, head of the research team: "It looks like many cases...