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Arafat's campaign to reassert his dominance over the P.L.O. was prompted by an unprecedented rebellion within the ranks of his Fatah organization, which has been his main power base ever since he helped found it in 1959. The mutiny, which at its peak in mid-May involved only a few hundred of the 10,000 to 15,000 P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, apparently never posed a serious threat to Arafat's leadership. But it dramatized the weakened condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization...
...straight months, a record number of families have told the Michigan researchers that they thought the time was right to buy a new car. In addition, the survey reports that the number of people who believe that it is a good time to buy a home now matches the peak year of 1977. One reason for their confidence: mortgage rates now average about 13%, down from a peak of 18% in October...
Doctors have long known that ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun produces profound changes in human skin. "Even one day's exposure can cause damage," says Dermatologist Fred Urbach of Temple University in Philadelphia. The most insidious rays are the short wavelength UVB, which prevail during the peak sun hours (between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.). But new research has shown that even longer UVA waves, which are present all day, can promote skin cancer...
...many of these institutions raising their fees at a clip greater than the 3.9% inflation rate of 1982? For one thing, private colleges depend on tuition for more than half their income. During the past decade, even when inflation hit its peak of 13.3% in 1979, most schools hesitated to boost fees at the same rate to cover costs that were climbing as well. As a result, faculty raises lagged and colleges deferred maintenance. Moreover, Government research grants, which help sustain 50 to 60 of the larger universities, private as well as public, have leveled off in the Reagan years...
None of this is news to folks in Midwestern and Western states, where the wild fungus, once derided as a "toadstool," is hunted with passion. Last week the season for morels, considered by many connoisseurs to be the tastiest of all, was coming to its peak in Mesick, Mich. (pop. 373), which calls itself "the Mushroom Capital" and counts among its landmarks the Mushroom Cap Motel and the Mush-Room Bar; despite heavy rain, a 30-minute parade swept Miss Mesick Mushroom and her court to fungoid fame...