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...from a 28-year low and is now as high as it was before the recession (see chart page 79). That indicates that the public is swinging back into a buying mood. One reason: about 1.4 million more Americans are working now than six months ago. Their paychecks help swell spending directly, and the rise in employment probably eases the fear of layoff and thus boosts buying confidence among people who held on to their jobs all through the slump. On the other hand, unemployment is still high, and the take-home pay of workers has barely kept ahead...
Ideal Society. Frances is intelligent enough to ponder such elemental issues without becoming elementary. She knows that her present state is predicated on the past; her own archaeological work has helped swell the warehouse of history. Yet Frances also recognizes that she and her colleagues are digging for lies: "We seek a Utopia in the past, a possible if not ideal society. We seek golden worlds from which we are banished, they recede infinitely, for there never was a golden world, there was never anything but toil and subsistence, cruelty and dullness...
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Sold 134 packets of "Petunias On Parade" and "Philly Phiodendrums" to unsuspecting members of the football team by charging them to their term bills. Jack got a swell walkie-talkie set and three dozen personalized golf tees shaped like naked women. "I'll have to learn how to play golf now," he said...
...they consider their own exploitation. They have also become extremely skeptical of organized medicine's promises, usually extracted under the threat of a strike or job action, to improve patient care or shorten the 100-hour weeks that house physicians sometimes work. "Goodwill arrangements and personal promises are swell," says P.N.H.A. Executive Director Steve Diamond, "but they have about the same value as a no-return beer bottle. Written contracts have proved to be the only way we can guarantee compliance by all those nice deans and administrators out there...
...Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an uncommon condition; in the entire U.S. there are no more than a thousand known victims. But those who have this metabolic abnormality must lead highly sheltered lives; sunlight causes their skin to swell or break out in blisters. Some victims develop gallstones. In the past, victims of EPP have had to avoid direct sunlight as much as possible, covering up or staying indoors entirely during the summer months. Now they have an alternative. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth of Harvard Medical School has found that betacarotene, a substance that...