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...hope in the electorate's demonstrated distaste in the June elections for the major parties' malgoverno (bad government). In their view, Craxi has an opportunity to bring a durable change to the pattern of Italian politics. Said Republican Party Whip Adolfo Battaglia: "With Craxi and a brand-new legislature there's a chance for a serious long-term political renewal...
...Canada Flight 143 was cruising smoothly at 39,000 ft. in clear skies above the Manitoba prairie when Pilot Bob Pearson saw a warning light blink on. The message: fuel in one tank had run out. Seconds later, one engine of the brand-new Boeing 767 coughed and died. As Pearson attempted to restart it, five more warning lights began to flash. Then, the twin-engine jet's other engine stopped. There was nothing but an eerie and chilling silence...
...that wistful reckoning, the last such ingenuous summer came along about 1960. American self-confidence was at its zenith. Ambitious public works were in vogue. The brand-new Interstate Highway System was growing by 40 miles a week. In Arizona's Glen Canyon, just over the border from Utah, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had started building the dam its engineers believed would finally tame the wild ups and downs of the Colorado River...
...totalitarian regime to Woody Allen's scientist doctors cloning a man from his nose. But most authors and directors and sociologists and philosophers start from the premise that the society thus transformed was ready for progress to begin with. Dr. Seymour Gray, an American physician appointed to head a brand-new hospital in Saudi Arabia, had the opportunity to see how much more wrenching such advancement can be when a country moves from a primitive nomadic culture to a modern technological state in only a few decades...
...experts believe that what was once known as the "gay plague" will enter the general population. Because of their frequent contact with AIDS patients and blood, "hospital workers will be next," predicts Dr. Roger Enlow, a leading AIDS researcher. As head of New York City's brand-new office of gay and lesbian health concerns, Enlow monitors new cases of AIDS and refers them to various support groups...