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...those Haitian pigs have virtually disappeared, and with them may go the peasant's way of life. Three years ago, when African swine fever broke out among local hogs, the Haitian government, with U.S. assistance, undertook a $22 million one-year campaign that eradicated the country's surviving population of 400,000 black swine. Reason: U.S. agricultural experts feared that the disease would spread and wreck the $10 billion U.S. pig business. Death squads wiped out the pigs of 800,000 Haitian families, paying $30 to $40 compensation for each animal killed. Wildlife biologists are now tracking down...
...League announced yesterday that it had signed a one-year contract with a New York-based television broker and a Boston production company to televise nine league football games on Saturdays beginning Sept...
...trigonometry there. The only problem is, can they communicate that knowledge?" The chances are good, since the candidates have studied English for an average of nine years. If satisfied, the Georgia contingent is empowered by local school systems from urban Atlanta to rural Cherokee County to offer a standard one-year contract to as many as 20 teachers. Even this complement may not be enough; Georgia high schools will need 93 new math teachers this fall. The state's universities are training only 61, some of whom will probably be siphoned off by corporations...
...Brookings economists offer detailed suggestions for meeting those goals. On the domestic spending side, the book advocates a one-year freeze on all social programs except those intended to help the poor. Beyond that, the proposal calls for long-term spending restraints concentrated in four major areas: Social Security, Medicare, federal pensions and farm benefits. The economists suggest, for example, that the initial level of Social Security benefits that people receive when they retire could be reduced by 5%. In addition, the book asserts that the rate of growth in payments that hospitals receive for each Medicare patient should...
...spare time, the athlete many consider the finest all-around graduating senior took to the lacrosse field (freshman year), softball field (sophomore year) and the Charles River in a Radcliffe crew shell (junior year) for one-year stints in sports in which she'd never participated before...