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...shall say we do not agree to withdraw" from the Golan. The small rightist Tehiya party threatened to quit the government coalition if the idea of withdrawing was so much as discussed in the Cabinet. Housing Minister Ariel Sharon spoke of building enough apartments in the heights to balloon the area's Jewish population from 11,000 to 31,000. (About 15,000 non-Jews, mostly Druze, also live there...
While strikes have helped balloon the CPS budget to more than $2.3 billion today from about $600 million in 1970, the quality of a CPS education has fallen steadily. ACT scores at 38 of 45 of Chicago's public schools have declined to the lowest four percentile in the nation. More than half of all Chicago high school students fail to graduate. Those that do often can only read at a seventh grade level...
...eggs have no way of getting to the womb. In the past, such women had to undergo surgery to have their tubes cleared. Now the problem can be overcome in a doctor's office, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With a tiny balloon similar to those used to clear blocked arteries, scientists were able to unclog the Fallopian tubes in 64 of 77 women, 22 became pregnant within a year. Dr. Edmond Confino, who pioneered the technique at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, estimates that it could help nearly one-third...
...balloon goes up, winning will require more men and equipment than previously acknowledged. The Iraqis have dug deeper into Kuwait in recent weeks. Fortified bunkers and minefields dot the country, and a network of roads increases the mobility of Saddam's army. Barring a wholesale surrender of the 430,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Kuwait and southern Iraq, no force will liberate Kuwait without sustaining heavy casualties...
...alone, surgeons annually perform 330,000 coronary bypass operations. An additional 190,000 cardiac patients every year undergo angioplasty, which usually involves the use of a balloon-tipped catheter to widen their arterial passages. Both operations provide immediate, dramatic relief for the cardiac patient. But there are some risks: in rare cases, either technique can trigger a heart attack. Then, too, relief is only temporary. Five years or so after bypass surgery, on average, plaque has built up in the grafted veins. And arteries opened by angioplasty sometimes become partly blocked again within three to six months. Finally, the price...