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...presidential Administration (Harding's) was reeling in a welter of scandal, most of it dealing with accusations of graft. The anticipated federal deficit was -- are you ready? -- $180 million and, according to Washington -- ready again? -- soon would be wiped out. The government reported that the U.S. (pop. 111,947,000) had 10 million registered passenger cars and 20,550,000 horses. A helicopter stayed aloft at 15 feet for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Southern blacks, hounded by poverty and a rampaging Ku Klux Klan, were moving to the North in large numbers...
Investigators are now zeroing in on the state monopolies for highway construction, petrochemicals, television broadcasting, public transit, water and electricity, where large budgets are tempting targets for graft. Though no one has precise numbers, one study puts the rip-off at $11 billion a year over the past dozen years, a figure coincidentally comparable to Italy's annual public deficit...
...first, party bigwigs tried to brazen it out. But as the evidence of graft among the major parties multiplied, so did public outrage. Shortly before resigning, Craxi was accosted by an angry mob outside his party headquarters. Damning testimony from several key figures, and the likelihood that members of Parliament will be stripped of their immunity from criminal prosecution, sent party higher-ups into a frenzy. Says sociologist Franco Ferrarotti of the University of Rome: "These people always operated on the concept that public funds belong to the person who grabs them first. Whatever they steal is theirs. There...
Williams is recovering. His jaw is wired shut, and doctors will graft bone from his pelvis to replace crushed leg bones. The explosion, he says, "shows how unpredictable these volcanos are, even for so-called experts like ourselves." He relives Galeras in nightmares; yet he feels driven to find more answers. He says he will resume his work...
...most common complication of such transplants, though, is graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD), a potentially fatal reaction in which the foreign tissue tries to reject its new body (rather than the other way around). Researchers have found that thalidomide seems to keep that reaction in check. Compared with other treatments for GVHD, the drug is relatively benign -- as long as the patient is absolutely certain she's not pregnant...