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...same Palestinian influence that was so helpful to Jordan also bred forces that tried to destroy it. Created in 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization found a fertile recruiting and training ground in the refugee camps that contained some 40% of the 255,000 Palestinians (plus their descendants) who had escaped to the kingdom after the West Bank was captured by the Israelis. The P.L.O. openly challenged the authority of Hussein's throne. The King finally reacted in 1970 with a brutal show of force that sent P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and his fellow guerrillas fleeing to Lebanon. Hussein...
Domestic opposition to Hussein's rule has diminished over the years. At the beginning of his reign, the King permitted a large degree of democracy. But freedom bred instability, as radical Palestinian groups and supporters of Hussein's bitter enemy, the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, sought to undermine his regime. Hussein now rules as an absolute monarch. The return of political stability has promoted an unprecedented period of prosperity. Unemployment is low; the economy, based on agriculture, mining and tourism, is growing at an annual rate of about 10%. More than half the population lives today...
Until recently, admissions officers worried about reaching more and more students and about treating disadvantaged ones fairly. Those ideals bred issues of fairness, like the long-standing disputes over bias in standardized tests and over "truth in testing." Today, those concerns are being eclipsed by another, suddenly ascendant goal: improving the sorry preparation of more and more college applicants. Just as it became obvious in recent years that those tests often only highlighted socio-economic differences among high-schoolers, it is becoming clear that many admissions problems--like the awesome need for remediation--couldn't be solved just by today...
...efforts to isolate an AIDS bug have come to nothing. The CDC has cultured specimens from lymph nodes, urine, feces and blood of AIDS victims and then inoculated them into specially bred marmosets, at a cost of $25,000 for testing on each animal. Unfortunately, as Curran points out, "it is not known whether there is a transmissible agent, whether the patients we're studying harbor it, which body secretion may contain it, and whether marmosets are an appropriate species...
...billion to $141.5 billion), net farm income has fallen. Profits, which declined from $32.7 billion in 1979 to $22.9 billion last year, may dip as low as $16 billion this year, making 1982 the third dismal annual showing in a row. Says Thomas Urban, president of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a Des Moines-based seed company: "There is nothing for the farmer to be feeling good about...