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More than 60 people stand in line on a typical day at the Central Square state unemployment office, waiting to receive their bi-monthly checks. Recipients in Massachusetts normally receive 30 weeks of unemployment benefits before their funding is cut off, unless the state feels the jobless rate in a particular area is especially severe. At 7.6 percent, unemployment in Cambridge is high, but not high enough for emergency attention. Many people received the unexpected news that no extension would be granted; and for some, it was their last check...
...BI semianually ranks the major urban areas, using a weighted cost of living index that includes such items as food, household goods, utilities, alcohol, recreation and entertainment. This year's list contains some old favorites. Tokyo, last year's No. 1, is now in second place. There are also some surprises. Oslo, Djakarta and Baghdad reign as the third, fourth and fifth most expensive cities...
...divestment, the Delmar, N.Y. native defies a radi-chic characterization. His parents both teach high school and Guy, a public school graduate, has always worked as part of his financial aid package; he now holds down a job as assistant to the publisher at Working Papers, a progressive bi-monthly political magazine...
...interlocking of two sophisticated computer facilities at Stanford in California and Rutgers University in New Jersey, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Half the transcontinental system's capacity is devoted to development of an artificial intelligence for diagnostic medicine. At the moment, SUMEX's two bi-coastal computers also link 20 research projects in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Says Saul Amarel, chairman of the Rutgers department of computer science: "The purpose of SUMEX is to help doctors match signs and symptoms and get not only some probable diagnoses, but information on drugs and their side...
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