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...sent flowers instead. They later met in the hospital and remained in touch by letter over the past nine months. When Snow and Pajor invited the prince to their wedding, he accepted. "The human touch is the most important to me," he says. "We get so caught up in heavier issues...
...When oil prices went bust in the past decade, so did the state treasury, which now faces a projected $1 billion budget deficit for the coming year. Though things have gotten a little better since 1987, Louisiana still has trouble attracting new business. That's because business bears a heavier, and more unpredictable, tax burden than the state's residents, who have long gotten a nearly free ride...
...career move. Solitary sexual acts performed in public, even in a darkened movie theater showing fare expressly designed to stimulate sexual acts, are a legal no-no. For people whose livelihood depends on public image, committing such deeds where those individuals are likely to be recognized carries a heavier penalty, which, in Reubens' case, seems to be a kangaroo court, public hanging and quick burial on TV boot hill...
...Mediterranean. Mitterrand and Foreign Minister Roland Dumas are now concentrating attention on their Maghreb neighbors. In many French eyes, the North African lands that were once colonial possessions are a time bomb. Arab immigrants have for the most part rejected assimilation, and in future years may become a heavier challenge to the concept of what it means to be French. Surprisingly, residents of foreign origin constitute no greater a share of the population today -- 6.3% -- than they did in 1931. The novelty is the highly visible intrusion of non-Europeans, largely Muslims, and their practices: schoolgirls wearing the chador...
...weights, published last year, provide much more latitude than earlier charts, allowing for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain from age 35 on. Why the extra allowance in middle age? "Some studies have shown that in older years, heavier people have better life expectancies," says Dr. C. Wayne Callaway, a George Washington University professor of medicine who was a consultant on the tables...