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...state legislation is giving an extra push to experiments that were already successfully under way. City Venture Corp., founded three years ago by Control Data Corp. and other companies in cooperation with the American Lutheran Church and the United Church of Christ, is helping to revive Toledo's rundown Warren-Sherman district, where unemployment is higher than...
...reason for the uncertainty is that no one knows what causes AIDS, and there is no single laboratory test to certify its presence. AIDS usually begins with swollen glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them...
...quick rundown of the situation lends itself to pessimism. Brazil has a foreign debt of about $70 billion and an inflation rate approaching 100 percent. Colombia and Costa Rica are barely surviving the sharp drop in world coffee prices, their principal export. And Honduras has the distinction of being the second poorest Latin American nation after Haiti...
...acre site of the old Victoria Barracks, located on the very edge of Hong Kong's commercial district, is prime real estate. Although its buildings are rundown and were abandoned by the British army in 1979, the parcel should have been worth about $250 million on the basis of similar recent real estate sales. But when the Hong Kong government offered it for sale this month, the bids fell "unacceptably" short, and the sale was postponed, victim to uncertainty over the future of the crown colony...
...York City, some 300 police and FBI agents searched unsuccessfully for Fugitives James Lewis, 36, and his wife LeAnn, 35, after it was reported that they had lived in a rundown Manhattan hotel from mid-September until Oct. 16. The two, also known as Robert and Nancy Richardson and by more than a dozen other aliases, are being sought by federal authorities for an attempt to extort $1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the makers of Tylenol, with a blackmail note saying that the payoff could "stop the killing." Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner has called Lewis "a prime...