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Jobs, hyper and overwrought from the flush of such success, would occasionally burst into tears at meetings and would have to be cooled out with a slow walk around the parking lot. His personal life was also precarious. He again met the woman with whom he had spent the summer in the mountains, and she became pregnant before they finally broke up anew. The baby, a girl, was born in the summer of 1978, with Jobs denying his fatherhood and refusing to pay child support. A voluntary blood test performed the following year said "the probability of paternity for Jobs...
...instructors from a variety of disciplines, 850 students a year and about 45 courses, including one on "The Nature of Engineering." In a recent class, Professor Adams made his students consider a down-to-earth question: How much water is used every day by the nation's flush toilets...
...carrying out Socialist programs. A report issued by the Bank of Spain last week outlined an austere economic stabilization plan that includes wage limitations and a tighter monetary and fiscal policy. Most economists feel that the Socialists have little choice but to accept such measures. But in the flush of the Socialists' victory, González and his fellow moderates may come under heavy pressure from their left wing to launch radical economic and social programs. "To the extent that Felipe may have to accommodate some of that leftist pressure," said a diplomatic observer in Madrid, "it would invite...
...Flush with success, antinuclear groups still lack direction
Gauri, who has worked on the Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, proposes that the Egyptians flush out the Sphinx's salt deposits and replace part of its veneer with low-salt stone and mortar. "If the work is done right," says Gauri, "it should last as long as the stones of the pharaohs...