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...WILLIAM REID WAS NEW TO Oak Ridge, Tenn., and disturbed by what he was seeing. Soon after he joined the staff of Methodist Medical Center in early 1991, he was treating four patients with kidney cancers, an unusually large number for one small area, and a cluster of other people who appeared to have weakened ability to ward off infections. Reid suspected that something in the local environment was attacking the residents' immune systems...
Beyong the wide expanse of pane glass windows, beyond the cluster of skyscrapers that house the headquarters of some of the area's biggest banks, beyond the gold dome of the State House glittering in the late afternoon sun, the Charles River meanders by in the distance...
Theme park? Think bigger. Mickey Mouse's custodians have spent $4.4 billion on an all-weather wonderland comprising a high-tech retro-cute amusement park, six ambitious new hotels (containing 5,200 rooms), 50 restaurants, a convention center, a campground, an 18-hole golf course and a cluster of nightclubs. They also got one big political hotfoot...
Though the state's success in attracting new industry has helped reduce black unemployment, from 19.5% in 1982 to 17.5% last year, the reduction has * been smaller than in some neighboring Southern states; much of the industry has tended to cluster in the predominantly white northwestern part of the state. The most surprising part of Arkansas' racial performance is that the state is one of only two (Alabama is the other) that do not have a law banning racial discrimination in employment, and one of nine with no statute outlawing housing discrimination. Clinton supported a state civil rights bill...
...already strained by American demands that the Shamir government stop building settlements in the occupied territories exchange for $10 billion in loan guarantees. The Wall Street Journal fueled the controversy by reporting that Israel is also suspected of having exported antitank missiles to South Africa as well as cluster bombs to Ethiopia and Chile...