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...people have said, "You're reallylucky,' and I realize that I am really lucky, andI'm looking for ward to [the fellowship]," shesaid. "On the other hand, I feel like I should belooking...
Since taking office, the mayor has broken ground for the $165 million New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled to open in 1997. He has got a supermarket chain to agree to open a store in the crime-ridden central ward and has promoted the construction of affordable housing, including the widely admired low-rise Society Hill development...
...huge hospital complex, which serves 60,000 overnight clients and 855,000 outpatients a year, is an island of security in violence-riven East L.A. If it were to close, smaller, private facilities might fail to replicate the quality of its burn center and trauma ward; or, most important, its commitment to the uninsured poor, who make up 40% of its customers. Already furious at California's anti-immigrant Proposition 187, local leaders see Reed's plan as a pursuit of the same policy by different means. Said Chicano activist Agustin Cebada: "This is genocide against our community...
...after British Prime Minister John Major shocked the country by quitting as Conservative Party leader, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd -- one of Major's closest allies -- tendered his resignation. Though Hurd had planned to retire this summer, officials said he had been reluctant to leave until Major was able to ward off threats from Tory rebels opposed to economic integration with Europe. Without Hurd, one of the anti-Europe faction's chief targets, Major will now be able to reshuffle his Cabinet at the July 4 leadership contest on which his own future rides...
Women who take estrogen after menopause have a 46 percentgreater risk of breast cancer, according to a new report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. An increasing number of doctors are giving the hormone to older women because ofits ability to strengthen bones and ward off heart trouble. But the new findings suggest such benefits may come at a steep price. Several earlier studies had indicated a link between estrogen and breast cancer, butthis is the largest survey yet, based on results from the Nurses Health Study, which has followed 121,700 women nurses since 1972. While...