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Society has just begun to wrestle with the financial burden of assisted reproduction. "It takes courage and cash," says Dr. Georgeanna Jones, whose work with her husband, Dr. Howard Jones, in Norfolk, Va., produced the first IVF baby in the U.S. A single in vitro cycle can cost $6,000 to $8,000, a burden most medical plans are not eager to share. Nine states have passed laws requiring insurance companies to cover the cost of infertility treatments, but resistance in the remaining states is strong. The question, says Leroy Walters, at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics...
...biggest impact of the merger could come from the pressure it exerts ( on other large banks. Just one day after the New York behemoths unveiled their agreement, C&S/Sovran, a regional firm based in Atlanta and Norfolk, Va., said it would press ahead in merger talks with North Carolina's NCNB to create the third largest U.S. banking company. In California experts said merger candidates include San Francisco's Wells Fargo and the ailing First Interstate and Security Pacific banks in Los Angeles. Any pairing among those would create a formidable new West Coast giant...
Recently, voters in the towns of Norfolk, Weymouth, Needham and Chelsea soundly rejected overrides...
...year-old girl and her 44-year-old mother were brutally murdered in Norfolk, Va. Their sometime housemate, a drug addict named Joe Giarratano, woke up from a stupor, saw the bodies and confessed to the killings. Last week, just three days before Giarratano was scheduled to die in the electric chair, Governor L. Douglas Wilder commuted his sentence to life in prison and offered him the chance to seek a new trial...
...million. There may never be an accurate national figure: for the first time, this year census takers tried to include the street people in their count, but some advocates fear that the tallies could be too low by as much as 70%. No city is typical. In Norfolk, Va., 81% of homeless people are thought to be families with children; in Minneapolis, 76% are single men, according to the 1989 Conference of Mayors Survey. Nationwide, anywhere from one-half to two-thirds are either substance abusers, mentally ill or both. Up to a quarter have been in jail. With such...