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Locals describe Asheville as "half??Christian, half New Age," a town where Baptists preach about Jesus' saving grace while mystics talk about the vortex entrance panels tucked in the mountains. There are a great many churches and Presbyterian summer camps here in Billy Graham's backyard, but there is also a lively population of retirees and artists and entrepreneurs opening craft shops and microbreweries. It thinks of itself as a tolerant town--to the point that the only facility in all of western North Carolina that publicly offers abortions is the city's Femcare clinic. It has a fence around...
Ford argues that since 1974 his economic policies have cut inflation in half???to an annual rate of 6.2% so far this year. Carter counters that Ford should have acted more boldly so that the economy could have snapped back faster than it has. He argues that more growth is needed to lower the persistent unemployment rate...
During the past 30 years the country's general death rate has been cut in half??? from 2% to 3% before 1900 to less than 1.2% now. In 1900 more than 16 of 100 babies died before they were one year old. Now only 7 of 100 die. By teaching the public to use typhoid-paratyphoid vaccines and diphtheria antitoxins and toxin-antitoxins mortality in these diseases has been...
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