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...country with the world's most renowned phone system, plain old breakdowns aren't supposed to happen. But lately America has been coming unhooked. The most recent epidemic began on June 26, when 6.3 million customers in Washington, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia lost service for up to eight hours. The same day, phone circuits went haywire in two Southern California area codes. Then, last week, 1 million Bell of Pennsylvania customers temporarily lost service, as did dialers in San Francisco. The scourge of breakdowns was eerily reminiscent of the January 1990 collapse of AT&T's long- distance system...
There can be no doubt that Marshall's personal experience shaped his view of the law. He was born in Baltimore in 1908, when the city was as segregated as any in the deep South. Because the University of Maryland law school barred blacks, Marshall gave up hope of attending there. He went instead to the all- black law school at Howard University, which in the 1930s was being transformed under vice-dean Charles H. Houston into a training ground for lawyers who would challenge segregation in the courts. Houston became Marshall's mentor, firing the determination of the younger...
White-tailed deer are suburban creatures, and a surge in the deer population as forests have regrown in the Northeast offers one reason that Lyme disease has hit hard in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and lower New England. Wisconsin and Minnesota have had smaller outbreaks, and so, though the ticks are a different species, has Northern California...
...State of Maryland sued a seller of medical-alert units (price: $1,295 each) that became useless junk when the firm failed to pay the company monitoring the equipment. And the American Association of Retired Persons decries the industry's high-pressure sales ploys. According to Myra Herrick, a retired Boston AARP representative, one elderly woman bought a Lifecall system after a four-hour sales pitch because she wanted the salesperson to leave. (Lifecall denies knowledge of the incident.) AARP contends that at $1,000 or more plus monthly monitoring fees, the systems are usually costlier than emergency-response services...
...trying to compete. Channel Home Centers, a New Jersey-based chain that has been saddled with a $268 million load of debt since it went private in 1986, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last January and plans to sell or close 34 of its 86 stores. Hechinger Co., a major Maryland- based chain of 115 centers, lost $800,000 in last year's fourth quarter before rebounding with a $7.2 million profit in the first quarter this year. That was down from $8.4 million in the same period a year ago. In California the National Lumber and Supply Co. closed last...