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Gone are goalie Cheryl Tate and leading scorers Kathy Carroll and Diane Hurley: In their places are senior goalie Tracy Kimmel and a crop of impressive freshmen...
...raise children. The result of the mating urge was a biological explosion. From a national birth rate of 18.8 per thousand before the war, the youngsters pushed the number up to 26.6 per thousand in 1947. There were 2.4 million babies in 1939, 3.8 million in 1947, and the crop hit its peak of 4.3 million in 1957. By 1984 the children of the baby boom were between 20 and 38 years old and accounted for 75.5 million of all American citizens-43% of those of voting age. They were ready to change the world their parents had designed...
...cause of Ethiopia's agony has been a series of disastrous harvests caused by the prolonged drought. The harvest of teff, the grain crop that provides the main source of food for Ethiopians, was very poor last winter, according to a U.N. senior official in Rome, and the secondary crop that came in last spring was "a virtual failure." Said the official: "The tragedy in Ethiopia demands not only an immediate response but a sustained response...
...people's views are shaped by the price hikes that affect them. Rose watched the wild black raspberries that give tang to her bestselling raspberry chocolate truffle flavor zoom from $31 per gal. to $107.50 per gal. after last year's harsh winter nearly destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student of Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "I look at the inflation numbers and I laugh because...
...pessimism, however, is countered by others who explain that somewhere on the path to a full understanding of oncagenes, ideas for treatments or prevention may crop...