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Undergraduates will also be required to attend bi-weekly tutorials to incorporate academic and internship-related pursuits...
...understand the disease, they still know very little for certain about how AIDS is transmitted, especially among heterosexuals. "We don't know all the mechanisms," says James Chin, chief of the infectious-disease branch of the California health services department. "We do know grossly, by observation, that it is bi-directional" -- in other words, that men and women are each able to spread the virus...
Since that time several other organizations have requested an open meeting where a variety of issues would be discussed. In addition, about 500 undergraduates have signed or written letters all of which will be delivered to the Corporation, which will hold one of its bi-weekly meetings early next week, Benz said. Tabling will continue in the house dining halls during the weekend, Benz said, adding that she expects close to a 1000 students to sign or write letters by Monday...
Titled The Bi-Coastal Economy, the study asserts that economic growth during the Reagan Administration has been concentrated in California and 15 states lining the Atlantic Coast, while the rest of the country has been almost stagnant. From 1981 through 1985, these 16 coastal states enjoyed a lopsided 69% of total growth in personal income. Put another way: income from wages, salaries, rents and proprietary income in the 16 states rose a robust average 4% a year, vs. an anemic 1.4% in the other 34 states. The coastal states, where 42% of all Americans live, attracted...
Politics aside, the study seems accurate in broadest outline, but it conceals striking differences within regions. Not everything is booming along the coasts. The authors of The Bi-Coastal Economy managed to make it look that way only by excluding from the ranks of "coastal" states timber- producing Washington and Oregon and steel-dependent Pennsylvania (which lacks a coastline but is considered part of the Mid-Atlantic region). Nor is all gloom in the heartland. Michigan, one of the most depressed states a few years ago, has achieved a remarkable turnaround, thanks to heavy spending by the auto companies...