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...more than 5,000 scientists and technicians--a skilled work force that is, by Western standards, grossly underpaid (average monthly salary: 400 pesos, or about $10). Peter Scott, chief executive of London-based Beta Funds Ltd., estimates that a European drugmaker could produce its drugs in Cuba for one-tenth the cost of local production...
From then on Franklin dedicated one-tenth of his time to preaching. He preached in auditoriums and gyms, in towns like Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and New Philadelphia, Ohio. After his 36th crusade, in May 1994 in Charleston, West Virginia, his father, having watched him for the first time, hugged him and told him he was proud of him. In September Franklin preached in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the audience was his older sister, Anne Graham Lotz, herself an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who had inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift. Afterward, Lotz told Business North...
...Future of the Race is composed of two essays, one by Gates, the other by West, a joint preface by both scholars and reprints of two essays by W.E.B. DuBois (the appendix also includes a look at "The Talented Tenth" by Gates). In the preface, they speak of the crisis of black leadership and tell us that they, "the remnants of the Talented Tenth," must "assume a renewed leadership role for, and within, the black community." They tell us that what is at stake is "nothing less than the survival of our country, and the African-American people." Gates' essay...
Sanchez, one of the Crimson's most reliable players and an All-Ivy golfer, shot 75-78, good for tenth place...
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine: People flocked to Chernobyl Friday to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the deadliest accident in the history of commercial atomic power. Ten years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine spewed lethal radiation killing at least 30 people and affecting thousands more across the then-Soviet Union and Europe. On April 26, 1986 the blast at unit no. 4 caused a nuclear meltdown, with blazes burning at temperatures of up to 5000 Fahrenheit, or twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into...