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...cases fanning the flames -- to prove how tough they are. Especially in California, Florida and Texas, three large states where the Governor's office is up for grabs this November, the new look in campaign commercials is to feature the candidate doing everything short of throwing a giant electrical switch...
...conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow him to disconnect his own ventilator using a special mouth-activated switch. Upholding McAfee's privacy rights, the court granted his petition. But McAfee subsequently decided not to end his life after...
...switch reflects the growing peril of runaway borrowing. Last year 68,112 U.S. firms filed for bankruptcy vs. 10,622 in 1981. And the failures are getting larger. The assets of bankrupt companies totaled $67 billion in 1989, up 52% from the previous year. The 1990 pace could be even quicker. Since January the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert (assets: $3.6 billion) and , the U.S. retailing arm of Canada's Campeau Corp. ($9 billion) have sought protection from creditors. They joined such major companies as Eastern Air Lines and LTV Corp., the third largest U.S. steel company, which...
Boston University decided to switch from a 20 meal per week board plan similar to Harvard's system to a combination system in 1984. In their system--dubbed Budget Plus--students are guaranteed a certain number of meals a week and also have a declining balance of meal points to use. In addition, meals on the regular board plan can be converted into points for use at other locations...
Cusack said Cambridge has recently modernized its water system to cut the level of THMs, which form when chlorine added to water to kill dangerous bacteria reacts with organic material, such as leaves and wood. Recent changes to the system include adjustments in the filtering process and a switch to non-chlorine based chemicals, Cusack said...