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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mickey Mouse Club anthem ("Now's the time to say goodbye to all our poverty. M-A-K . . . I-N-G . . . M-O-N-E-Y"). While Turner sits in prison, one of his disciples, best-selling author Givens, is prospering in Orlando. Givens bought a lakefront spread outside the city and decorated his driveway with a white Rolls-Royce, a white BMW convertible, a white stretch Lincoln limo and a white Excalibur convertible. Givens married the former Miss Sexy Orlando, and is getting rich through his books (along with Wealth Without Risk, there is the newly released Financial Self...
Rabies began to spread northward in 1977, when 3,500 Florida raccoons were imported into West Virginia to be hunted for sport. A number of them were rabid and quickly transmitted the disease to other forms of wildlife and to some humans: rabies killed 13 people in the U.S. during the past decade. "Once raccoon rabies is here, it's here to stay," says Dr. Matthew Cartter, an epidemiologist with the Connecticut State Department of Health. "This is a long-term problem...
...days) and their care is 13 times as expensive ($6,900, vs. $522). And that is only the beginning, since many of the crack kids are placed in foster care. In New York City annual placements of drug-affected babies run to 3,500, compared with 750 before the spread of crack. That brings the city's foster-care tab to about $795 million (up from $320 million in 1985). The New York State comptroller's office expects that New York City will spend $765 million over the next 10 years on special education for crack kids...
...ambitious effort by GM to overtake the Japanese, the $3.5 billion Saturn line that it launched last November. Production glitches and poor-quality parts have restricted Saturn to building only 20,000 of the roughly 40,000 cars it had planned to assemble by May and have slowed the spread of Saturn dealers, limiting sales to just 12,000 vehicles. Still, Saturn added a second shift last week, and plans to have 106 showrooms open nationwide by the end of the month. Many shoppers seem pleased by what they have seen of the front-wheel-drive compact. Says Michael Russell...
...levels of PSA in the blood. Doctors already use PSA tests to monitor the effectiveness of prostate-cancer therapies, such as irradiation or hormonal treatments. Some researchers have argued that the exams should replace much more expensive bone scans as a way of determining how far the cancer has spread...