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Many of the people who contract hepatitis C never show symptoms. But like Typhoid Mary, they become silent carriers of the disease. About half those infected eventually suffer liver damage. Some 15,000 patients a year develop cirrhosis, and a small number may get cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...
...unwary. "Most law students don't know what they are getting into when they start law school," says Susan Bell, editor of Full Disclosure: Do You Really Want to Be a Lawyer? (Peterson's Guides; $11.95). "Practice is not L.A. Law. For all of the financial rewards, the toll is tremendous." Deborah Arron, author of Running from the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession (Niche Press; $12.95), agrees. Says she: "Law has become all consuming...
...wage gap and the segregation of women into low-paying jobs, together with the lack of affordable child care, take their greatest toll on unmarried women, particularly single mothers. Today more than 60% of adults below the federal poverty line are women, and, contrary to popular mythology, the majority are white. More than half the poor families in America are headed by single women. In the early '80s the "feminization of poverty" became an issue for the women's movement, but the situation has barely budged. High divorce rates have added to female destitution. In The Divorce Revolution (1985), sociologist...
Increased traffic has also taken its toll onthe grounds, causing costly damage each year tosprinkler heads, grass and shrubs in the Yard,Smith said...
...Caracas on Nov. 21. Government representatives vow to be there; the rebels have said they will not attend. The U.S. is urging them to return to the negotiating table. The governments of Central America should lend their voices to that call. Otherwise, nothing will change but the death toll...