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While Michael Jackson fans across the nation eagerly await the Jacksons' upcoming megatour, city fathers in Foxboro, Mass. (pop. 14,200), last week did the unthinkable. They banned a performance there by the Gloved One, citing "security considerations" and fear of the "unknown element" that might descend upon the town. Foxboro officials were accused of racism, namely trying to keep out black teens who might travel from nearby Boston for the concert, a charge that the officials heatedly denied. Meanwhile, the tour's promoters were being criticized for the way a ticket lottery was being handled. Jackson concert...
...overseas. Says Richard Mattione, a research associate at the Brookings Institution: "Individuals and firms did the very sensible thing: they moved money out of the country. It was a mistake of government policy to have such an extremely overvalued exchange rate." The exact amount of this flight capital is unknown, but experts believe that since 1979 as much as $70 billion has left Latin America. That is well over one-third of the debt accumulated during that period...
...another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids ask where the lost ones go, and she tells them that they go to live with Jesus. About how, when one kid ate an unknown quantity of fruit on a supermarket expedition, she offered to weigh him and pay for everything over 53 Ibs. About why it is all right to store useless leftovers in the refrigerator: "Garbage, if it's made right, takes a full week." About how young mothers want desperately to talk...
...toasts Chinese leaders in the Great Hall of the People. He mourns at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He chokes up on the D-day beaches of Normandy...
While subjects in the studies complained of few side effects beyond an occasional upset stomach, the long-term risks of taking acyclovir are unknown...