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...disease with surprisingly mild repercussions on many of those it infects--unless it turns out to be symptomatic of an economy heading off a cliff. Those declaring bankruptcy can still end up keeping their homes, their cars, their jobs and even some credit cards. The most popular provisions are in Chapter 7, which enables the overburdened to shed most of their IOUs; some debtors need only fill out a two-page form. Connoisseurs say the best places to go bust are Texas and Florida, where debtors can hold on to more of their assets than in any other states...
Indeed, one of the reasons Johnson flies faster than anyone else is that he is so well grounded. He grew up in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, the son of Paul Johnson, a truck driver, and Ruby Johnson, a teacher. They instilled in Michael and his brother and three sisters a sense of discipline and an appreciation for learning. "My folks," says Michael, "are the kind of people who wouldn't want you to make too much of their influence. They would say they were just doing their job, and they would be right. It tells you something about...
...walking closer to the edge of the cliff, and a lot of other people are as well," says Irene C. Cheng '97, former president of the Asian American Association and a member of the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC...
...dinosaur bones is always a grueling business, but conditions in the Kem Kem wilderness of southwest Morocco last summer were especially bad. The temperature soared to 120 degrees F almost every day, and the fossils were hundreds of feet up, poking out of the dusty face of a sandstone cliff. "It was," says Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who led the joint U.S.-Moroccan expedition, "the most brutal fieldwork I've ever done." Worse yet, the team wasn't finding much--lots of moderately interesting bits and pieces but nothing even close to a major discovery...
...From Iron Mountain: A Look at Modern American History"; Manjul Bhargava '96 for "On P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind-type rings"; Joshua S. Bloom '96 for "Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Standard Candles and Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries as Dynamical Probes"; and Cliff W. Chiang '96 for "'If answerable Style I Can Obtain...': An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost...