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...program worked: by early this year, the incidence of new AIDS cases had dropped from 50% to 5%. (Overall, 20% of Zurich's addicts have tested HIV positive.) Trouble was, the Platzspitz also became a magnet for professional dealers, especially Lebanese, Yugoslav and Turkish gangs that overran small dealers in a violent price...
...Certainly choice is most desirable, but whether or not we have real choice in Cambridge is perhaps another question," said candidate Ronald S. Crichlow. "I think the Cambridge choice program needs to be reviewed, so we don't just have integrated schools with segregated magnet enrichment programs...
Spirit rejuvenated, Raffi, 43, is experiencing the indignities of middle age. He suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, a hernia, bursitis and high cholesterol. To cleanse his system of impurities, he eats only brown rice and fruit. For the hernia, he sleeps with a magnet on his stomach...
What U.S. cultural magnet is located in Cooperstown, N.Y.? Easy: GLIMMERGLASS OPERA. Well, yes, the Baseball Hall of Fame is there too, but in contrast to the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass's hits (and its basses) are onstage. Set along the sylvan shore of Otsego Lake, the festival is noted for its ambitious repertory and stable of budding American singers. This summer's season features a Jonathan Miller production of Beethoven's Fidelio, in which Miller does not change the 18th century prison locale to one of those voguish operatic places he calls "nowhere and nowhen," but instead treats...
...Governor gripes that his state has become a "welfare magnet" for out- of-state poor because Wisconsin -- despite a reduction of AFDC outlays of 6% to fund Thompson's reforms -- has some of the highest benefits in the nation. In 1989 he proposed a two-tier system that would peg newcomers' benefits to those in their home states during their first six months of Wisconsin residency. Advocates for the poor challenge the legality of the double-barreled scheme, pointing out that the Supreme Court banned residency requirements for welfare benefits...