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...everything had become so expensive. "A room in a decent hotel costs $450, and breakfast $35," fumed Robert McFadden, an Atlanta lawyer in London. "It would have been bad enough without the dollar's fall. Now it's just outrageous." Said Stephanie Bressler, a recent college graduate from Rhode Island who was touring Paris with friends: "Like we saw the Louvre, the outside of the Louvre, but we couldn't go inside." Neither Bressler nor her companions could afford the $7 admission charge...
That is why a report in the New England Journal of Medicine is so & significant: doctors in Maine and Rhode Island have shown that by using three blood tests -- for substances called alpha-fetoprotein, unconjugated estriol and chorionic gonadotrophin -- they could determine which young mothers were at highest risk for bearing afflicted children. The first test alone predicts Down syndrome correctly 35% of the time, but all three together boosted the rate to nearly 60%, thus targeting women who are most likely to benefit from amnio...
...Democrats. According to standard financial-disclosure forms, which often yield conservative estimates, Virginia Senator Charles Robb, a Democrat, leads the pack, with a net worth of at least $19 million (thanks mostly to wife Lynda Bird Johnson's family holdings). Among the other wealthiest Democrats: Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (net worth: $13.7 million), Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ($12.7 million), Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia ($8.7 million), Lloyd Bentsen of Texas ($5.8 million), Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts ($2 million) and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ($1.5 million...
...Rhode Island, home of Brown University, the Newport Mansions and not much else, casts three votes for the next president of the United States of America, Our Next President...
Perennial faces in the news includes outspoken professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah who recently made headlines for leading Mike Tyson's appeal. Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...