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...standards of the homosexual world, Samantha and Jill are more than usually open, or "out." Their bond is no secret to their families or neighbors -- in fact, they discovered after moving into a suburban-style home that four other lesbian couples live on the same block. Their friends know too: one year the couple sent out a tongue-in-cheek Christmas card depicting them entwined in a romantic cliffside embrace. Yet they are still wary enough, with Jill's tenure on the line, that they refused to have their real names included in this article...
...state's once thriving high-tech industry has stalled. Its bond rating is the lowest of any state in the union. And its state budget, once touted as a model of compentent management for the federal government to emulate, now faces a deficit estimated at anywhere from $700 million to $2 billion...
...past eight years have been characterized chiefly by fiscal mismanagement and waste on the part of those on Beacon Hill. A deficit conservatively estimated at upwards of a billion dollars, a bond rating--already the lowest in the country--teetering on the brink of junk bond status, declining real estate values, 100,000 lost jobs and an economy spiraling headfirst into recession have been the results of their efforts...
Post-secondary institutions are feeling both an economic and a demographic squeeze. As the stock and bond markets continue to wilt, schools can no longer expect robust returns on their endowments, so they are struggling to refurbish their capital. Meantime, the days of bulging classrooms are long gone. The 1965-75 baby bust led to a 10% dip in the number of college-age students in the 1980s; the head count will plummet a further 25% by the mid-1990s. The ability of institutions to simply crank up tuition and fees has also hit a ceiling. Last spring Princeton scaled...
Corey taught a generation of chemists to think like those chess masters who start with their vision of a winning board position and then work backward. His method for breaking down compounds, bond by bond, into smaller and smaller components is so rigorously logical that it can be taught to a computer, although Corey says it will be some time before chemistry has the equivalent of a computerized Kasparov...