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...cover report on the U.S.'s real estate bonanza and the way record home prices are changing people's lives drew responses from happy homeowners, worried prospective buyers and those dismayed by the rampant speculation. Some said the housing market is a bubble that's bound to break...
...foggy on the subject of contraception. A National Opinion Research Center survey of teenage mothers found that few were familiar with the IUD, and most, says Researcher Pat Mosena, "didn't even know what the diaphragm was." Mistaken notions about the health risks of the birth control pill are rampant. All this may help explain why, according to John Hopkins researchers, only about one in three sexually active American girls between ages 15 and 19 uses contraceptives at all. And many who do use them have a rather weak grasp of the methodology: one-quarter of the girls...
Yugoslav Communism has been plagued by a Balkan variant of Murphy's Law ("if anything can go wrong, it will"). Local empire building is rampant, a practice that is amplified by Yugoslavia's strongly regional nature. The polyglot nation consists of six republics and two autonomous provinces, meaning that in each area regional bureaucrats have competing, equally wasteful strategies...
...work force. Research conducted by Philip Mirvis of Boston University and me shows that even "friendly" mergers and acquisitions are extremely stressful for employees. Top managers and key performers fear that the careers they have developed will matter little when a new owner takes over. Worst-case rumors run rampant, and the most talented staffers spend their work hours lining up interviews with other firms. It is not surprising that this decreased morale and productivity contribute to the finding that half of all mergers yield disappointing financial results. Fortunately, firms can take steps to minimize the human costs of acquisition...
...world strangling itself with bureaucracy and overpopulation, rampant with crime, terrorism, drug addiction and nuclear weapons, people are searching for any sign of hope. No wonder so many people saw Christ in a bunch of rust spots and shadows. John D. Helm Sacramento...