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...part- time employee of the state's department of public welfare, spotted a new federal law that reimburses states providing hospital care for needy patients. The resulting Medicaid payments to Massachusetts will total $489 million, enough to erase the state's entire budget deficit -- with $39 million to spare. Governor William Weld plans to award Betts $10,000, which she will save for the education of her two children. "I'm still in a state of shock," said Betts, 38. Weld also proposed an incentive-award program for state workers...
...drama of the Ayalas -- making the baby, against such long odds, to save the older daughter -- seemed to many to be a miracle. To others it was profoundly, if sometimes obscurely, troubling. It called up brutal images -- baby farming, cannibalizing for spare parts. Many saw in the story the near edge of a dangerous slippery slope at the bottom of which they glimpsed an abyss, and maybe the shadow of Dr. Mengele at work...
...Shedroff, who in his spare time away from the saxophone has earned honors grades as a Social Studies concentrator, owns something most aspiring sax players wouldn't even know what to do with: a spot in next year's class at Yale Law School...
...Persian Gulf war, substantial funds should be found to save perestroika), aid on a scale large enough to be effective would be very expensive: $30 billion over five years is an often mentioned figure. The Western nations are by no means sure they either can or should spare the money. "Why give pennies to a man with a hole in his pocket?" asks a top British official. The return to favor of Yavlinsky, an author of last year's drastic 500-day reform plan, is encouraging, but the memory of how abruptly Gorbachev reversed himself and spurned that plan after...
...after the law takes full effect, but once they are gone, the outflow will dwindle. One reason is that the U.S. and European nations are unlikely to admit many more immigrants from the U.S.S.R. than they do now. Also, foreign tourism costs more money than most Soviet citizens can spare. But the knowledge that citizens can leave if they wish and the insights into other ways of living and thinking brought back by people who do travel overseas are likely to have major effects on Soviet psychology...