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...effect, he only needs to nod to have federal money steered toward his constituents. Boasts he: "Washington gets more federal money per capita [$1,850] than any state in the union." Everywhere there are signs of "Maggie's" vast power: $951 million of relief for the victims of Mount St. Helens' eruptions, $5.7 billion in hydroelectric projects on the Columbia River, including the $1.5 billion Grand Coulee Dam complex. Federal grants and contracts to Washington have exceeded $80 billion during his past 13 years as Senator...
...Mount Auburn Cemetery board of trustees voted this week to follow the recommendation of historical groups to retain the remaining part of a cast iron fence dating back...
...Mount Auburn cemetery was the first "rural garden" cemetery in the country. Earlier cemeteries had consisted of "just a piece of pasture with graves in rows," Sullivan said...
...spout believe-it-or-not "facts" had got him into repeated trouble, Reagan brought it mostly under control; he still tears many clippings out of newspapers, but now adays he passes them on to his staff for checking before using the information in speeches. Last week's Mount St. Helens gaffe was an exception. But he still clings to favored notions, sometimes beyond the point of reason...
...July, U.C.L.A. Hematologist Martin Cline and colleagues at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus and at a clinic of the University of Naples performed gene transfers on two female patients. Both had severe thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces red cells with defective hemoglobin (the molecule that carries oxygen to body tissues). Victims need frequent blood transfusions, but this leads to a buildup of iron in the body, particularly the heart, that can eventually cause death...