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...second alternative is surgical: rebuilding the breast with tissue taken from the stomach or buttocks. But this involves a lengthy and costly operation and is appropriate only for women who have usable tissue to spare...
Brown does not spare his party. On the stage of the Democratic National Committee meeting in Los Angeles last fall, he accused party chairman Ron Brown of having conspired with his Republican counterpart, the late Lee Atwater, to ramrod a congressional pay raise through the House of Representatives in virtual secrecy. Ron Brown, sitting a few feet away, winced. On the road, Jerry Brown's message is a hit with student audiences but draws mixed responses from older crowds who listen, but with some skepticism. The message keeps running afoul of the messenger's past reputation...
...estimated 1.3 million new businesses opened their doors in 1991, up nearly 9% from 1980, when 1.2 million start-ups were launched. More than half the new enterprises are sole proprietorships or microbusinesses with no more than two employees, typically operating out of a garage, basement or spare room. In most cases the entrepreneurs made the choice to drop out of corporate America to become their own boss. But with companies slashing their payrolls in relentless rounds of layoffs, the innovators are more and more likely to be corporate castoffs like Lewis...
Social and economic decay are evident everywhere. Domestic airports look like refugee camps as stranded passengers keep weary vigil, hoping the state- owned Aeroflot airlines will soon resume flights canceled by a severe shortage of fuel and spare parts. With more than 8,000 wells standing idle, oil and gas production have dropped 10%. Life in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, a key industrial and defense center on the Chinese border, has almost ground to a halt because of dwindling food and heating...
...desertion rate is rising. Pay is so meager that soldiers have resorted to selling military equipment on the black market. Fuel shortages are so dire that many ships and submarines have been forced to return to their home ports. Planes, ships and tanks are being cannibalized for spare parts. Thousands of demobilized troops from Eastern Europe are stranded without adequate housing and benefits in shabby tent cities. Morale is at a nadir. "The military is absolutely shellshocked," says Dale Herspring of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center. "Cohesion is so destroyed that they couldn't mount a coup even...