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...Moscow there is a growing awareness that the virus of secessionism is spreading fast, while the search for a cure -- economic prosperity and political diversity within a loose confederation -- is still in the test-tube phase. Academicians at state-sponsored institutes are openly wondering whether breakaway Muslim areas of Central Asia will end up allied with hostile Islamic fundamentalist regimes to the south...
...murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...
...Market manipulation has now reached such proportions . . . that even the greenest newcomers are becoming aware that they are being taken for a ride." Since the main form of this manipulation has been the systematic inflation of estimates, it leaves the auctioneers with a problem not even Dr. Gachet could cure...
...Sunnyvale, Calif., believes that science will eventually make immortality possible, and he wants in on it. Last week he asked a state court judge to permit a seven-person team to freeze him, then sever his frozen head and store it. Someday, he figures, science will provide a cure for the cancer that afflicts him. Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation, Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal cheaper than the $100,000 it costs to suspend an entire...
Storm clouds may be forming as some Soviets demand faster economic reforms while others warn against the resulting hardships. -- How to cure Israel's political crisis...