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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proteins in Hall's brain were changing, however. Ordinarily made up of tiny strands of intertwined amino acids, the complex molecules had begun to assume a very different shape, collapsing into sticky sheets. Before long, these gummy structures began to clump sloppily together, creating pits and divots where there had once been vital brain tissue. Within months Hall was delusional and bedridden. Not long after, he was dead...
...preliminaries have already begun. In meetings with incoming White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House minority leader Richard Gephardt--Al Gore's likeliest rival for the 2000 nomination--has warned the Administration not to go beyond the 1995 Democratic proposal of $124 billion in Medicare cuts. To distinguish himself from Gore, Gephardt knows he has to play to Democratic loyalists like seniors and union members. "I'm not going to be for something that slashes Medicare," he says. Though some form of means testing is all but inevitable, trustees say, Gephardt won't hear of it, and Clinton...
...line divides the workers with the knowledge and credentials to get good jobs from those individuals, many of whom live in inner cities, who lack the basic education to cash in. Significant regional variations apply too. Beyond Wall Street and Boston's high-tech belt, the Northeast has barely begun to recapture jobs lost in the last downturn. And the fear of downsizing still sends shivers through offices and factories at Fortune 500 companies everywhere, destroying any sense of job entitlement and dampening employee wage demands. "It's almost a paradise for job seekers in the U.S. right now," says...
...list for 43 weeks, her tale about four middle-class black women proved there was an audience for commercial fiction by black authors and sent publishers scrambling to find the next black blockbuster. Mosley's second manuscript, Devil in a Blue Dress, a continuation of the story he'd begun in Gone Fishin' and featuring the same hero, Easy Rawlins, was scooped up in the rush. The book received rave reviews when it appeared in 1990 and sold so well that Mosley never had to return to his former job as a computer programmer. But his career really took...
Gates said the department has begun to focus on social science and the possibility of a Ph.D. program...