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Such optimism is comforting and, in a global perspective, almost certainly correct. National boundaries become ever less important in the world's economies; a job is a job, whether it be in Budapest, Buenos Aires or Birmingham, Alabama. Still, certain ancient human emotions have not yet adapted to the new realities. Some of the new expatriates tell of encountering resistance from their parents. When Rob Swift, 23, graduated from Stanford last year with a degree in international relations and announced that he had found a job in India, his mother offered to pay him to stay behind...
...minors are not a get-rich-quick scheme," says Bob Sparks of the National Association of Professional Leagues, which oversees all but one of the leagues. The minors are on track to draw 32 million spectators this season, buoyed in part by the attendance explosion in Birmingham, Alabama, where Michael Jordan has mastered the craft of striking...
Later that month, Chatfield was asked to drive a truck full of books from Hartford to New Haven, which would then be transported to a Black college in Birmingham...
...when he arrived in New Haven, Chatfieldsaid he decided on "the spur of the moment" todrive the books to Birmingham and join the civilrights movement in the South...
Other hospitals in the Consortium include theBarnes Jewish-Christian in St. Louis, theCeders-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, theCleveland Clinic, the Georgetown UniversityMedical Center, Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York andthe University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham...