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Call it a case of plumbing panic. Within two years, the President and Barbara Bush develop the same overactive thyroid disorder, and best-selling pooch Millie suffers from a bout of doggie lupus. Heightening the drama, doctors reveal that both of these diseases hail from the mysterious realm of autoimmune disorders, which occur when the body unaccountably begins attacking itself. Pundits confidently calculate the odds of such a coincidence at 1 in 3 million. Latter-day Clouseaus begin looking everywhere for a culprit. Dan Quayle raises questions about the ancient plumbing at the Naval Observatory -- the official 100-year...
...This week in Santa Barbara, citizens will vote on a special bond issue to link the city to the state water system. The choice is difficult because while state-supplied water would help relieve severe drought conditions, it might also encourage a burst of unwanted new development that many residents fear could turn the exclusive coastal enclave into a Los Angeles suburb...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Audrey Ball, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Nancy Newman, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Michael Quinn, Megan Rutherford, David Seideman, Linda Young
...Female scientists and graduate students perceive there is a glass ceiling," says Barbara J. Grosz, McKay professor of computer science. "Adding more women junior faculty...