Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...thousand bargain hunters and curiosity seekers showed up under a bright orange-and-white tent 10 miles outside Reno last week to watch the ultimate strip show at the legendary Mustang Ranch. The Internal Revenue Service put the 330-acre establishment, Nevada's oldest legal bordello, on the auction block when its previous owners failed to pay $13 million in back taxes. Going, going, gone -- for $1.5 million -- was the 104-room hot-sheet palace itself (actually two pink stucco buildings with a guard tower). Also gaveled off, for about $500,000 more, were such appointments as couches, lamps, nude...
With jet-fuel prices doubling since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Pan Am has been forced to put its prized London routes on the block, and Eastern's creditors last week called for the line's outright liquidation. But if they have problems, how about Kuwait Airways...
...tensions between Western-educated Saudis and religious conservatives are certain to increase. An estimated 60,000 Saudis, for example, have attended U.S. universities. "On the one hand, they represent a sizable block that is just beginning to come into power," explains the diplomat. "But on the other hand, they still account for only 1% of the population." At the same time, Western analysts warn that many people in their 20s and early 30s who have been educated at Saudi universities are more religiously conservative than their Western-schooled elders...
...Joslin team to predict which otherwise symptomless relatives are likely to develop the disease in three years' time. Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug less toxic than cyclosporine. The ambitious goal: to block the onset of disease. In the future, researchers imagine launching molecular missiles that will seek out and destroy the rogue immune cells that cause Type I diabetes. They also envision a vaccine that will rally the immune system against the traitors in its ranks. "Intellectually," says immunologist Dr. Terry Strom of Boston...
...battle lines are clearly drawn. Directly in front of the border protesters, counter-demonstrators, most of them Hispanic, hold up mirrors and black plastic banners to block the lights. Aida Mancillas, a university language professor who is protesting the headlight rally, believes uneasiness about the economy and San Diego's expanding minority population fuels the demonstrations. The percentage of whites in San Diego County is expected to decline during the '90s from its current 74% to 60%, while that of Hispanics will rise from 14% to 23%. "Borders are breaking down everywhere, and it's frightening," says Mancillas. "There...