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...There were not droves of Harvard students trying to get a glimpse of the Patriots," says Gary W. Farneti '71, captain of the Harvard football team. "It was a non-event. Except for the football players who met some of the Patriots, it did not alter life at Harvard...
...opposes Palestinian statehood or trading occupied land for peace with Israel's neighbors. He has moderated his tough stance on the PLO, saying recently that he would meet with Yasser Arafat. Despite the election's dramic turn, Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says a Netanyahu victory would not alter Israeli policy, at least for now: "In the short term, not much will change. There are no talks with Syria at the moment, and there is a lull in negotiations with the Palestinians. The real change will come in the medium and long term. Netanyahu clearly intends to take a much...
Every time a commercial airliner meets up with disaster, the flying public is forced to confront dangers it never even knew existed--remember microbursts and wind shear?--and the airlines scramble to alter policies, upgrade technology or retrain their pilots. In the case of the May 11 crash of ValuJet Flight 592, which plunged into the muck of the Everglades and killed all 110 people on board, the safety concerns are so varied--and the questions emerging about the role of the Federal Aviation Administration in regulating low-cost airlines so troubling--that it may be a while before passengers...
...Further studies of communities or individuals could determine whether income inequality alone leads to premature death in different groups and also whether policies that would alter the income distribution could positively affect health for all citizens," he said...
DIED. SANDY BECKER, 74, children's TV-show host; of a heart attack; in Remsenburg, N.Y. In the free-wheeling universe of early TV, Becker entertained but never patronized young viewers in programs featuring such surreal alter egos as the silent Norton Nork, and Hambone, dispenser of bizarre advice ("Cut your grass, so the ants can pass...