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...faces a daunting task in improving the Chelsea school system. Students from the district have tested among the lowest in the state for basic skills. The average annual income for a Chelsea household is $10,000, and the teenage pregnancy rate for Chelsea students is one of the highest in the state...
...Wylie liked to do herself, and Taylor read Duff and me a paper he was writing on weak gravity, in a room that was dark except for the yellow glow of a table lamp and the purple glow of the fish tank. He made it funny, choosing neighborhood and household examples for anything technical. "Weak gravity is what keeps your dreams inside your head so they don't go flying out," he said. "It's what keeps Jase and Duff together," he said, smiling sweetly, "so they don't fly off the bed at night. When you look around, weak...
Psyllium is not exactly a household staple, but the obscure grain has provoked a kitchen-table brawl between General Mills and Procter & Gamble. Psyllium contains soluble fiber, which has been shown to reduce cholesterol levels. The grain is an ingredient in Benefit, a new breakfast cereal General Mills introduced in May. Psyllium is also found in Metamucil, one of P&G's fiber laxatives. But while General Mills is allowed to advertise that Benefit helps to reduce cholesterol, P&G is forbidden to make the same claim for its laxative unless it can get FDA approval, which...
...numbers are based on a 1981 poll conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates. It asked 1,228 U.S. voters whether in the previous five years any member of their household had "used a handgun, even if it was not fired, for self-protection or for the protection of property." Roughly 4% (about 50 people) said they had done so. Projecting that percentage onto the number of U.S. households in the five years covered by the poll (1976-81), Kleck came up with the estimate that handguns had been used protectively 3,224,880 times, or 645,000 a year...
...problems that could befall a growing number of leveraged buyouts as the U.S. economy softens. Touted as one of the hottest financial plays of the go-go 1980s, LBOs zoomed in annual volume from about $250 million in 1980 to nearly $45 billion last year. The buyouts included household names like R.H. Macy, Beatrice, TWA and Safeway Stores. In such deals an investor group, often headed by a company's own executives, uses bank loans and high-interest junk bonds to buy a firm and take it private. Almost without exception, the group immediately slashes costs, lays off workers...