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With the escalating rhetoric, many professionals in the risk-assessment business are worried that once again emotion rather than common sense will drive the political process. "There is no free lunch," observes Tammy Tengs, a public-health specialist at Duke University. "When someone spends money in one place, that money is not available to spend on other things." She and her colleagues have calculated that tuberculosis treatment can extend a person's life by a year for less than $10,000 -- surely a reasonable price tag. By contrast, extending a life by a year through asbestos removal costs nearly...
Interest in foreign experience is also surging among undergraduates. Student applications for the University of Michigan's overseas-study programs in 20 countries have shot up 70% in the past two years. At Duke, 9.2% of 1993's graduating seniors said they planned to work abroad, in contrast to 3.2% the year before. And plenty of people abroad have evidence that the young Americans are coming. In Buenos Aires, Martin Porcel, spokesman for the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina, says that eight months ago, his office received about one resume a month from U.S. applicants. Now that figure...
...invitation-only tournament featured such top universities as Yale, Duke and Canadian powerhouses McGill and Queens...
...reality, Goad's wife), as well as articles about the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a pro-pedophilia organization. Goad is about to publish "The Rape Issue," which includes such articles as "Let's Hear It for Violence Toward Women." An admirer of Louis Farrakhan and David Duke, Goad proudly describes what he does as "journalism without a social value." Publishing, he says, "keeps people like me out of jail. The zine is a good outlet for aggression that otherwise might be spent injudiciously...
...life, but not without a little flair. It's quite a change from the calm, reserved playing the orchestra usually produces in performances of the standard Teutonic masterworks. However, one can almost see a bunch of musicians in Moscow, completely ignorant of stylists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington, taking some joy in the fluffy flourishes of Shostakovich's work. These musicians had perhaps heard of Scott Joplin, and in fact Joplin seems the closest to Shostakovich in form...