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...America's health care slip into such a critical condition? It's all so paradoxical. We're the medical miracle workers. We're the picture of health. We live decades longer than we did before. We've harnessed the body's natural defenses with antibiotics, defeated plagues and diseases, learned how to make spare parts for almost every organ except the brain...
...former mayor of Charlotte. Helms, who refers to blacks as "Freds" and has for decades been hostile to civil rights legislation, was eight points behind Gantt three weeks before the election. Then he ran an 11th-hour TV ad showing the hands of a white man crumpling a rejection slip for a job that had been reserved for a "racial quota." Many Republicans as well as Democrats denounced the ad for inflaming racial animosity. But it worked: Helms came from behind...
...last thing they have of any worth: their simple gold wedding bands. The rings, buffed free of inscriptions, fill a black velvet tray. Dozens more crowd a shelf in the vault. Over the past five years, more than 1,000 miners and their wives have come here to slip off their rings and slide them silently across the narrow glass counter. They walk away with a $15 loan and a claim stub. In time, their rings are shipped in bulk to a smelter in North Carolina, where they are melted down -- as disposable as they once were valued, not unlike...
...meant to be day-care facilities; parents are expected to stay and play with their kids rather than drop them off. But $ several also provide high-tech baby-sitting services. At some of the Discovery Zones, parents can register their children in special supervised programs, then leave them and slip away for a couple of hours to enjoy a movie or dinner. If there is a problem, Mom and Dad are paged by beeper...
...familiar American story. We expect our lives to be perfect, and when they are not--our babies are born with nine toes, our fenders are dented, our bonds are devalued, we slip on an icy sidewalk, we get hit by a foul ball--we blame somebody (the doctor, the garage, the broker, the city, the team...