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...small-market group was headed by Sioux Falls; Provo, Utah; Bolise, Idaho; Santa Fe, N.M., and Rapid City...
...although modernization offers the means to control epidemics, disease springs from modernization gone awry. In Surat, for example, rapid industrialization and growth has created communities outside the control of the city administration...
They find a complex picture. On the one hand, the modern world fights disease with better treatment than ever before. On the other, byproducts of modernization, like rapid transportation, can spread epidemics world-wide...
...fell into place. The computers were cheap. The modems were fast. The infohighway buzzwords were on everybody's lips. "It's like Mars and Jupiter coming into alignment," says Maurice Cox, president of CompuServe, the largest (2.25 million subscribers) of the field. Upstart America Online grew at such a rapid clip -- an extraordinary 200% in the past 12 months -- that subscribers complained of busy signals and its stock was whipsawed by takeover rumors (the most recent: that cable-TV mogul John Malone wants to buy a big stake). Even Prodigy, the troubled online service that has reportedly swallowed $1 billion...
...When I saw the rapid decrease in airspeed and felt the very severe sinking of the airplane, it was... it was... very noticeable. Something you would never forget," Hayes said. "It's as if you were suspended from a string and somebody dropped...