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...great guy," says Cheri Goldstein '93, the IOP student liaison. "People are very fond of him. He is very responsive to questions...
...wander around with cassette players blaring music into their skulls for hours. These personal stereos can funnel blasts of 110 decibels or more into the ear. "If you can hear the music from a Walkman someone next to you is wearing, they are damaging their ears," declares Dr. Jerome Goldstein of the American Academy of Otolaryngology. After years of such assaults, notes audiologist Dean Garstecki, head of the hearing- impairment program at Northwestern University, "we've got 21-year-olds walking around with hearing-loss patterns of people 40 years their senior...
...competitive hype points to a harsh reality: as surely as a flush beats a straight, some of the riverboat ventures are destined to fold. "I am concerned about saturation if every state gets it," admits Bernard Goldstein, owner of Emerald Lady and Diamond Lady, which docks in Bettendorf, Iowa. Michael Jones, director of the Illinois state lottery through the mid-1980s, warns that the potential audience for the novelty cruises may be smaller than boosters imagine. For one thing, he notes, lottery players and higher-stakes gamblers are different animals. While lottery enthusiasts may sample riverboat gambling once or twice...
...never rebuilt. Through the 1980s, the town's largest employers -- Sheaffer and Chevron -- staged devastating layoffs. Although citizens liked to boast that Fort Madison was "a place where you can raise kids," many drifted away; since 1987 the town's tax base has dwindled 20%. To attract Goldstein and his $10 million Emerald Lady, Fort Madison floated a $2.2 million bond issue that financed a waterside pavilion, a walkway and parking lots. In return, city fathers expect annual revenues of as much as $300,000 -- if the venture succeeds...
...legal experts believe the race of the defendant also plays a role -- 12% of the U.S. population is black, though blacks constitute 50% of death-row inmates -- but the evidence is equivocal. "The trouble with the death penalty is that it's like a lottery," says law professor Steven Goldstein of Florida State University. "There are so many discretionary stages: whether the prosecutor decides to seek the death penalty, whether the jury recommends it, whether a judge gives...