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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murden was granted a spot on the all-expense-paid trip by a Canadian travel company, which organized and funded the expedition...
...except in Japan. A U.S. homeowner who wanted automated control over an entire house had to have it custom wired by Unity or one of a handful of competing firms such as Hypertek in Whitehouse, N.J. These systems start at about $6,000 and go up quickly; the Arvays paid $22,000 for theirs...
...pastime that the Japanese learned from the English by way of New Zealand, the maze craze shows signs of catching on in the U.S. Since August, thousands of visitors have paid $7 apiece to get lost in the first American Wooz, which stands for Wild and Original Object with Zoom. The $13 million park in Vacaville, Calif., offers two degrees of difficulty. Claustrophobes need not fear, because three escape routes are provided. Price of a franchise: $45,000 plus construction costs...
Today a growing corps of experienced medics look upon volunteer medicine as a career. Salaries are minimal: doctors in the field are paid between $700 and $800 a month, nurses somewhat less. But most of those who go abroad feel they are more than compensated by a sense of venturesome achievement. Stephane Michon, a French nurse, contracted malaria during a tour in Thailand, but she readily said yes when M.S.F. asked her to go to Sudan to work with refugees...
...much for the domino theory. Despite China's power to stalemate the Korean War, and the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam, capitalism has flourished in Asia -- a painful irony when one considers the price paid by successive American governments to contain the Commies...