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...that they are difficult even to express as a statistical risk. The National Transportation Safety Board counts 31 fatalities suffered by passengers aboard major U.S. carriers during 1992, which works out to 0.0006 deaths per million aircraft miles flown. Last year that number fell close to an irreducible minimum. As far as major U.S. airlines were concerned, there were no fatalities at all in the air, only one in a ground accident...
After 12 relaxing days on Martha's Vineyard, the First Family returned to Washington -- but not to their customary quarters. As workmen rushed to complete repairs on the White House's antiquated heating and ventilation systems -- including some "minimum asbestos removal" -- President and Mrs. Clinton settled into Blair House, the government guesthouse across the street...
...wrong. A 40-hour workweek, even at double the minimum wage of $4.25 an hour, does not necessarily buy you shelter anymore -- especially in America's tourist boomtowns. Life for the working class in resort areas has always been short on personal amenities, but the situation is now reaching crisis proportions because of stagnating wages and escalating real estate prices. From snow-and-arts resorts like Breckenridge, Colorado, to country- music Meccas like Branson, Missouri, America's playlands are producing a booming class of unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like...
...last year -- if Fidel Castro will stop the exodus. That's just one item on the list when U.S and Cuban officials meet in New York City on Thursday. They'll also discuss "credible reports" cited today by U.S. officials at the Guantanamo Naval base that Cuba has released minimum security prisoners, allowing them to join the boat people on rafts headed for Florida. Meanwhile, the influx of Cubans headed for Florida began climbing after a virtual halt during weekend storms. Hundreds of people in home-made rafts set off from beaches near Havana Monday night, and by mid-afternoon...
...Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling cocaine to an undercover police officer last December. Kevin Elders' mother fought back tears in the court as he was led away. The decade stint is the minimum mandatory sentence for the crime. Just days before he was arrested last year, the Surgeon General suggested that the legalization of drugs be studied as a possible antidote to urban violence...