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...regionally to accommodate the higher costs of running hospitals in urban areas. (The rate for a simple appendectomy in Chicago: $3,825; the same operation in Lawton, Okla.: $2,773.) Psychiatric hospitals, long-term care facilities and rehabilitation centers are exempt from the new regulations. So are hospitals in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, which have their own cost-containment programs...
...stereotypical image of Southern politics involves politically powerful, usually aging, men wielding great though soft-spoken influence in statehouses and Congress. But weep no more, my ladies, for this image is rapidly changing. Maryland became the first southern state to have an equally divided House delegation; Florida was the second state to elect a woman U.S. Senator in her own right, and the first to send a woman not from an important political family. Last summer, Mississippi held a hotly contested Democratic primary for governor with a woman candidate, Evelyn Gandy. Even conservative Houston, Texas has a woman mayor...
...Senate, Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia argued that in light of the "changed circumstances" in Lebanon, meaning the outbreak of fighting, "full congressional participation is now required." Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland proposed authorizing Marine deployment for six months. "There is no question of whether U.S. troops are engaged in hostilities," he declared. "The facts speak for themselves...
...enthusiasm for this new form of communication. Some, such as Miami Big Apple, TRADE-80 and AMIS (Atari Message and Information System), are for owners of particular computers, offering them a place to trade hardware. The Aviators Bulletin Board (pilots) in Northern California and HEX (handicapped) in Maryland are forums for special groups that want to share experiences...
...they say, is at least someone who is consistently there and who really cares. All depends, obviously, on the quality of the day care-and of the home. In the case of the Milwaukee experiment with the potentially retarded, day care was a rescue service. But in one typical Maryland county, 788 regulated day care facilities have room for only 8,560 of the 65,000 children under 14 who have working mothers...