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...They identified a cluster of childhood leukemia and renal [kidney] eancer," said the Rev. Bruce Young. "They made a statement: 'Yes, you're right, there's lot of leukemia in Woburn. But that was it. They said they didn't have the money or manpower to help us," added Young, who helped form a group of concerned citizens who sought definitive answers to their questions...
Just how bloody Lebanon can be was illustrated last week, when 16 Israeli Kfir jets swooped down and bombed a cluster of villages near Baalbek. Beirut radio reported that as many as 100 were killed and 300 wounded. Most of the casualties, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, were civilians. Israeli military officials claimed to have destroyed two bases used by Iranian-supported Shi'ite guerrillas to launch attacks against Israeli troops in southern Lebanon...
...capture the most attention, but it is the unremitting bursts of daily violence that make Lebanon the terrifying place it is: the car bombing here, the firefight there. Sometimes what is most surprising is that the savagery does not claim even more victims. When six explosions ripped through a cluster of stores in West Beirut last week, one person was killed and three were wounded; had the bombs not gone off shortly after the 8 p.m. curfew, when the streets were deserted, the toll could have been much higher. The terrorists, as usual, were unknown. Shi'ite fundamentalists were...
More than other money managers, LeBaron has tried to make stock picking a science. He and his staff test out the performance of hypothetical investment plans on a cluster of Prime computers. Once a strategy is chosen and programmed into a machine, the electronic wizard chooses what stocks to buy and sell without further human meddling. Says LeBaron: "Other companies use computers as adjuncts to people. We've turned that concept around and put the computer in charge." The computer has done well, beating the Standard & Poor's 500 index by an annual average of 6% over...
...winters, and autumns that can be rather a brilliant compensation, only this football team gathers up an entire state of people and brings them to one emotional place. In other regions of the country enamored of college football, there is never just one rallying point, and almost always a cluster of them. For no matter how dominant the University is, some will always root for State, never mind A & M. Over in Omaha, Creighton has stirred a certain passion for basketball, but to most Nebraskans this must seem as wrongheaded as when Creighton dropped football...