Word: tolls
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...home, though, the Met's reputation has been taking some serious knocks. Most immediately, there's a real and disturbing rise in knife crime, especially among London's young. Last year, 27 London teenagers were murdered, many of them by fellow teens. This year the teen death toll from violence has already hit 21. The sense of danger on the streets comes at the same time as Commissioner Blair faces questions about his conduct. On July 20, he awoke to news reports about a Scotland Yard contract awarded to a technology company helmed by one of his friends. Blair said...
...reason for the higher risk could be that those who had the cognitive protection and social benefits of a relationship but lost them may be worse off than those who never enjoyed those benefits at all; or perhaps the emotional toll of losing a close partner damages cognitive functions in a way that puts these people at greater risk for dementia and Alzheimer's down the line. Either way, says Hakansson, the results suggest that "if you are looking for interventions to prevent Alzheimer's, one way may be to identify people who have been divorced or widowed...
...negotiations ourselves. No outsiders.'' Maintaining the secret became easier once the Paramount bidding war broke out in September and grabbed the attention of Wall Street and the media. Like Malone, Smith views the Paramount fight as a side issue. He envisions the new Bell Atlantic more as a toll taker on the electronic highway than as a provider of entertainment and information. ''What we're looking for are arrangements with programmers to use our platform,'' says Smith. His ''platform'' is basically the highway itself, which will generate revenues for Bell Atlantic in the form of subscriber fees. Thus Paramount...
...future as sketched last week by the Public Health Service is downright scary. A PHS conference of experts on the disease speculated that AIDS will multiply more than ten times by the end of 1991, the caseload rising from 21,517 known cases to 270,000, the death toll from the 11,713 so far to 179,000. Increasingly, AIDS will afflict heterosexuals, and it will spread fast outside of such hard- hit cities as San Francisco and New York. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million Americans have been exposed to the AIDS virus...
...demanding immediate attention. Yet last week all Japan seemed to be hanging on the phone to hear an infant shriek. The sound comes from a baby panda born June 1 at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Its plaintive cries were recorded, and can be heard by those dialing a special toll number. Word of the hot line caused pandemonium, and as many as 200,000 calls a day were logged. Zoo officials hope the baby's 226-lb. mother has become nimbler since last year, when she accidentally crushed her firstborn to death...