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When Tower Records and HMV opened giant outlets in Cambridge everyone worried that the grungy, groovy hole-in-the-wall record shops that give the Square a college town atmosphere would fold under pressure from the big, slick high-tech chains...
...jump in asthma rates on gaps in the availability of health care, particularly in the U.S. In Chicago and New York City, the number of hospitalizations for acute attacks in chil dren under age four has surged. "A black child in the inner city has a 13- to 16-fold better chance of dying from asthma than his white suburban counterpart," says Dr. James Wedner, an allergist at Washington University in St. Louis. Poor or uninsured asthmatics often get medical attention only on a crash basis at the hospital emergency room. They receive no treatment for the underlying condition...
Appiah and Gates' efforts have won at least one scholar back to the fold...
Down, 9-6 in the second half, Maryland refused to fold. The team scored three straight goals to send the game to overtime...
...dreamed of healing by wire. But the reality of transmitting a detailed picture over a 1-mm-thick (.04 in.) copper cable proved elusive. Then in the 1980s engineers working with a technique called digital signal compression managed to boost the data-carrying capacity of ordinary phone lines 30-fold...