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Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported that fire broke out on the sub 620 miles northeast of Bermuda. The announcement said three people were killed but there was no danger of nuclear explosion or radiation contamination...
...northeast Washington neighborhood last week, residents protested a plan by Mother Teresa and the Roman Catholic archdiocese to open a hospice in the area for AIDS patients. In Chicago, a charter-bus driver ejected 35 healthy members and friends of an AIDS fund-raising group last week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials...
...rates below prime to prevent them from turning to alternative financing sources, such as bonds and overseas capital markets.) The drop in the prime will also have an effect on consumer loans. Rates for 30-year fixed-rate home mortgages, for example, have already dropped below 10% in the Northeast for the first time since April. On the other hand, yields on passbook savings accounts, which have traditionally hovered at around 5%, fell to 4.75% last week at several major institutions. Many bank-credit-card rates remain stubbornly high, at between 17% and 20%, except in Arkansas and Connecticut, which...
There was a time, however, when it seemed that Steve wouldn't get down the academic skills to do either. "Hell" is what he says he put his parents through. Born in Fort Monroe, Va., Earle grew up in Schertz, Texas, just 17 miles northeast of San Antonio. It was the kind of place Earle recalls in Someday: "There ain't a lot you can do in this town/ You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around." As Earle grew up, his own trips out of town got more frequent, the turnarounds longer. "I wasn...
Officially, the FAA blames the weather for 70% of this year's delays -- frequent fog and thunderstorms have plagued the busy Northeast, and other storms assaulted the Midwest. Any weather hitch quickly gets amplified in the prevailing system of hub airports, in which large airlines attract commuter feeders to major cities. A significant delay at one hub quickly affects ( connecting flights there and spreads to other centers...