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Despite its wealth, Oakland is feeling pain from the economic downturn. The most recent round of auto-industry cuts has walloped white collar engineers and researchers who call Oakland County home. Take a drive through the hardest-hit neighborhoods, and you'll see blocks on which one-third or more of the houses have a FOR SALE sign planted in their front yard. The mix of layoffs and a depressed real estate market has forced some highly trained workers to take jobs in other states and leave their families behind in unsold homes...
Bowdler has a point. Recent data from the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol study, which surveyed more than 50,000 students at 120 colleges, show that binge-drinking habits vary widely from campus to campus. Kids tend to party hardest at schools with few official alcohol-control policies, easy access to alcohol and strong drinking cultures...
...past, his Administration is too sharply divided for the bureaucracy to produce anything more than cumbersome, half-a-loaf truces among its own warring factions. Like SDI, the grand compromise with Gorbachev would have to be a very personal initiative on the part of the President. For Reagan, the hardest part will be deferring indefinitely the fulfillment of his dream of a nuclear-free world in which ballistic missiles have rusted away in their silos and launching tubes. But his lieutenants, notably Perle, are talking about SDI not as an alternative to offensive nuclear weapons but as a supplement...
...connection has been one of the best things about coming to World Youth Day. "We've met so many people from everywhere," Leone says. "They just come up and introduce themselves. Being with other people with similar values and interests really helps." Says Jackie Jones, from Blaine, Minnesota: "The hardest part is not coming here. Here we're with thousands of people who share our values. The hardest part will be going back...
...kidney stone cases concentrated in regions with the most rapid temperature changes: California, Texas, Florida and the Eastern seaboard. But if there's a threshold temperature at which risk shoots up - some evidence suggests such a threshold exists at about 13.4 degrees C (56 degrees F) - they expect the hardest-hit regions to be those where mean temperature crosses the threshold: Northern California and the belt running from Kansas to Kentucky...