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Ironically enough, a Dead Concert would have educational benefit, providing a perfect opportunity for field work. Anthropology concentrators would be fascinated by the rituals and organized religions that have sprung up around the country's most historically innovative band. Economics professors would marvel at these seemingly non-goal-oriented members of society, amazed by Deadheads' ability to financially sustain themselves and their journeys around the country. And sociology students would be astounded by the strange social and arrangements that loyal fans create: Makeshift families form regularly as fans seek transportation, shelter, and the assurance that they will make...
...sure. But the trade is so lucrative that even a small-time boiler-room operation with just three phones can take in $5,000 a day. Fly-by-night operators flourish in Florida, where policing is spotty at best. In the past year about 100 employment agencies have sprung up in the state to peddle overseas jobs. Half have already closed...
More important, some of the reforms favored by Clinton aides threaten to undermine his promise to create jobs, since he aims to streamline America's most recession-proof industry: health care. Most of the 290,000 jobs created since the recession officially ended in March 1991 have sprung up in the health-care industry, which employs 9 million Americans. Since the election, Bristol-Myers has announced that it is cutting 2,000 of its 53,000 jobs, and Warner-Lambert expects to eliminate 2,700 of its 35,000 positions. Insurance companies, a principal target of Clinton's reform philosophy...
...shade of the UNTAC umbrella, there is a heartening political spring in Cambodia. Alongside several brave Cambodian groups, UNTAC is promoting human-rights ideas. At least 14 political parties have sprung up to contest the election, including one with the Stars and Stripes as its symbol. Hun Sen's ruling communists have renamed themselves the Cambodian People's Party, but find it hard to escape their Marxist, pro-Vietnamese history or reputation for corruption and brutality. Their principal competitor is the nationalist, anticommunist party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler...
...Clinton appointments process has sprung more leaks than a tramp freighter flying a flag of convenience. Almost every day there has been another name in the news linked to a likely job, such as former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The first question at Clinton's Thursday press conference was not about his economic team but whether General Colin Powell was in contention, as rumored, for Secretary of State. Sure, there have been a few wrong calls -- Carol Browner, and not former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, was named to head the Environmental Protection...