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Fifty-three percent of the Bell operating companies' employees are women, who still tend to cluster in such jobs as operators and clerks; few have jobs as splicers or in other crafts. Says Beaumont: "That's because very few women receive any education in basic electronics and electricity. Guys got that in school. Most of us didn't." Women will now be encouraged to go into those fields and develop their skills...
...with such force that the nose wheel collapsed under it. Sparks flew and clouds of black smoke trailed from the tires as Pearson locked the brakes. Said Passenger Bryce Bell: "People were screaming, kids were crying." The plane finally came to a stop just 300 yds. short of a cluster of trailers filled with families. The only casualties: several passengers who were slightly injured as they slid down the plane's emergency escape chutes...
...long time to come, Central America is likely to be testing U.S. patience. Unfortunately, that very quality has been missing in American foreign policy. Impatience is the dark side of a whole cluster of Yankee virtues. Confronted with intractable, ambiguous challenges in other lands, America's cando, problem-solving, troubleshooting instincts twitch in an often misguided quest for the quick fix. Got a problem? Send in a military governor or a proconsul or a special envoy. Still got a problem? Send money. Still got a problem? Send in the Rough Riders, or the Marines. For nearly a century, that...
...strongest evidence that an infectious agent was on the loose came from what has been called the Los Angeles cluster. Interviewing victims, investigators began compiling the names of their sex partners. Three different men, none of whom knew each other, each mentioned the same man in New York City; he turned out to be an AIDS victim. Since then, 40 cases in ten cities have been linked to one another by sexual relationships...
These events in the Holy City are only samples of a troubling increase in sectarian violence involving ultra-Orthodox Jews, many of them members of Israel's numerous Hasidic groups.* Ever since the founding of Israel in 1948, traditionalist Jews who cluster in the Mea Shearim or Geula neighborhoods of northern Jerusalem have often stoned passing automobiles on the Sabbath and otherwise vented their wrath on those who violate God's law. But the recent outbursts reflect a new militancy on the part of extremists and a fundamental change in the relations of the city's religious...