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...airport island, justa cross the lagoon from Malé, is a tide gauge that has been beaming data to the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center in Honolulu since 1989. The good news, says the center's director, oceanographer Mark Merrifield, is that sea levels around Malé do not appear to be rising quite as fast as in many other places in the world. That may sound odd, but the simple expansion of water as it warms is complicated by local wind and current patterns. Beyond that, changes in the height of land masses as soils compact or tectonic plates slip...
...highly original pairings of acts and the willingness of so many high-priced performers to appear free far outweighed any minor technical glitches. Never have such lofty goals been realized so exuberantly. Rick Emmer Belleville...
...substance of those accomplishments was more difficult to define. By and large, the two men laid out their countries' positions on major issues dividing the superpowers and agreed on those that would appear on the agenda of the November summit. According to the U.S. side, the program would include four categories: 1) arms control and security, 2) regional conflicts such as Afghanistan, Kampuchea and Central America, 3) bilateral matters, including trade and cultural exchanges, and 4) human rights. But Soviet officials asserted that only three categories would be discussed; human rights did not appear on the Soviet list...
...summer has not been kind to Ted Turner. His Atlanta Braves are buried in fifth place in the National League West, and now the cable-TV king's chances of gaining control of CBS appear to be as slim as his World Series hopes. Last week CBS succeeded in buying back 21% of its own stock for about $1 billion in a deal that will make it virtually impossible for Turner's takeover effort to succeed. Both the Federal Communications Commission and a U.S. district court in Atlanta blocked Turner's last-minute legal challenges to the network's move...
...sooner did the report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores...