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...often goes undetected throughout childhood, but many of its victims are children who die suddenly while running or playing. Its symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pains, and high blood pressure, according to Seidman...
Martinez will need his war chest to help him overcome an unfavorable performance rating among voters that peaked at 62% in June. Hobbling the Governor are two well-publicized gaffes, a flip-flop on a controversial tax in 1986 and a resounding defeat in the legislature when he tried to push through new restrictions on abortion rights last fall. But Republicans, including George Bush, have stuck by Martinez, largely because Florida is too important to the G.O.P.'s goal of capturing the South to risk abandoning an incumbent Governor. Last year the G.O.P. gained a majority in Florida's congressional...
...Magic Lantern." Ash brilliantly juxtaposes the gravity of the political situation with the ironic humor of Havel and his band of writers, artists, economists and politicians. He tells of how his press credentials bore Havel's personal stamp--"a beaming pussy cat with the word 'Smile' across his chest!" A second credential bears a stamp with a beaming green frog and the words tres bien...
...German taxpayers will have to pay out to prop up the East's economy. Figures as high as $60 billion a year over the next few years have been mooted; the DIW economic forecasting institute in West Berlin expects $30 billion annually. Bonn has already put together a war chest of about $70 billion for & eventualities. Among other things, Bonn inherits a large G.D.R. budget deficit and foreign currency debt of around $13 billion. At the same time, the special aid to West Berlin that West Germany provided, some $12 billion a year, can be phased out, and defense spending...
Anna Golin, who owns Wunderhaus, a giant warehouse of modern furnishings in Unterfohring, says people are investing heavily in home decoration as well: a Rolf Sachs chair goes for $5,900, a chest of drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...