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...toll that tourists have already taken seems a compelling reason for not inviting 23 million more. Which explains why so many defenders of Venice are dead set against a plan for the city to host Expo 2000, a four-month-long world's fair celebrating the turn of the millennium...
...emergency room may be the most democratic place in America: people are treated according to need, and no amount of money will buy better care. But the pressures from overcrowding, nonpaying patients, drug violence, AIDS and a nursing shortage are taking a heavy toll on the staff -- and the patients. -- A Hard Day's Night...
...Khmer Rouge from power and replaced them with a pro-Hanoi and pro-Soviet government currently headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, 39, a poorly educated but extraordinarily bright former Khmer Rouge officer who lost an eye during the 1970-75 Cambodian war. Since that government took office, the toll in the country has been markedly lower: a few dozen or so limbs and lives lost each week as the deposed Khmer Rouge and other Cambodian factions -- each representing combinations of outside support -- fight to regain power. Vietnam ostensibly withdrew the last of its 150,000 troops in September...
...taken it's toll, it's starting to hit hard," says David Varela, student government president at Framingham State College. "Unfortunately people don't realize that there are students who aren't prepared for these increases in tuition, fees and housing--some students...
...required warning labels on all containers of alcoholic beverages sold in the U.S. Expanding on that approach, legislation sponsored by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee and Representative Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts would require spoken health warnings in all TV and radio ads for beer and wine, including toll-free telephone numbers that would provide callers with information on how to cope with alcoholism. The legislation has garnered broad bipartisan support, in part because of studies showing that alcohol abuse costs the U.S. an estimated $136 billion every year. The annual health cost of smoking is about $52 billion...