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Further reductions in joblessness are most certainly needed if the economy is to repair the ravages of last year's recession. As Democrats rushed to point out, even a 9.5% unemployment rate is higher than any that the U.S. suffered between 1941 and 1982. Partly because of high unemployment, the Census Bureau reported last week, the number of Americans living in poverty (now officially defined as an annual cash income of $9,862 or less for a family of four) rose last year to 34.4 million, or 15% of the total U.S. population. That was a full percentage point...
...staff, who nevertheless are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks. Never a flush organization, NPR can withstand some painful fiscal austerity, but the blows this crisis have dealt to the energy and enthusiasm that made the station what it has become, will be harder to repair. One former employee describes "a sense of real doom that NPR will never be the same again. That an era is over." The overwhelming listener support pledged in the fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past...
Meanwhile, behind the military shield, Salvadoran government technicians and U.S. Government officials are moving into the territory reclaimed in Operation Goodwill to repair the roads, power lines, bridges and schools destroyed in the F.M.L.N.'s economic sabotage campaign. Says a U.S. military expert: "You can't bring the guerrilla to bay with military means alone...
Before attempting to repair the brain damage, Stein's team waited a week to allow for the natural accumulation of healing proteins called nerve growth factors. Then they implanted a pinhead-size lump of tissue that had been taken from the frontal cortex of normal rat embryos. The researchers used fetal cells because they are rich in growth factors and adapt easily to a new environment. Result of the operation: the brain-damaged rats were able to learn the maze in just 8½ days. While this is still slower than normal, says Stein, "the transplant was clearly producing...
...capable of producing dopamine, a vital brain chemical lacking in the afflicted rats and in Parkinson's patients. Such techniques used with humans, some researchers believe, may lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease within five to ten years. Eventually, it may also become possible to repair the spinal cords of paraplegics and regenerate parts of the extensively damaged brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, multiple sclerosis and other degenerative disorders...