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...situation is studded with an endless variety of similar horror stories (see boxes). Among the most prominent are those that involve municipal services. The city council of Blue Island, Ill. (pop. 22,000), last October voted down a 30% increase in property taxes thought necessary to pay rocketing liability-insurance premiums, and the town expects to self-insure for the 1986-87 fiscal year, taking a chance that a large judgment might force taxes up anyway. Five counties in Missouri closed their jails for several weeks last fall, sending some prisoners elsewhere for incarceration and releasing minor offenders outright...
...write a biography. He could reshape the study of leadership and the presidency. "I want to do a detailed, literary work on personality as power," says Morris. He has already spent time in Hollywood talking with those who knew and worked with Reagan. Soon Morris will go to Dixon, Ill., and live for a spell along the President's boyhood streets. There he will search for keys to Reagan's character, look for experiences of those distant years that surface today. Morris has noted that at Reagan's "cutting edge" lunches, where pioneering physicists, geneticists and others come to talk...
...remains relatively low--some 18,070 cases have been reported to date, including 9,591 deaths. But authorities estimate that as many as a million Americans may be carrying the AIDS virus and exposing others to infection: indeed, they say, AIDS is spread primarily by carriers who are not ill. The Public Health Service defines high-risk groups as homosexual men, intravenous drug abusers, prostitutes, the sex partners of infected individuals, and hemophiliacs who receive blood-clotting products. Also designated high risk were natives of Haiti and the Central Africa nations, where heterosexual transmission of AIDS is believed...
Somewhere between the Administration's ill-disguised desire to back the contras as a means of over throwing the Sandinistas and the Congress's temptation to consign them to a quick defeat by pulling the plug on U.S. support, there are at least two other courses of action. One is for the U.S. to support the contras indefinitely as a way of distracting and bleeding the Sandinistas. Even if the contras cannot win militarily, perhaps they could provide insurance that the regime would be too busy at home to make mischief abroad...
Doing 80 on a long, straight highway through the flatlands was once considered almost a part of the American birthright. But when the oil embargo pinched the U.S. in 1973, high-speed, gas-gulping joyrides looked like something the nation could ill afford. Congress forced the states to impose a 55-m.p.h. limit, and a tradition died. Though lower speeds have saved countless lives and millions of barrels of oil, many road runners hate slow-motion driving. I Can't Drive Fifty-Five, a popular song by Sammy Ha-gar, has become the anthem of speeding scofflaws...