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When their condition is found out, AIDS victims often encounter severe discrimination on the job. Hairdressers, barbers and food handlers are routinely fired. In New York, AIDS victims fired from their jobs have brought more than 150 cases of discrimination. All have been settled with back pay or reinstatement.
A funny thing happened on the way to Halley's comet last week. As an armada of Soviet, Japanese and European space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The...
Farquhar's first thought was that ISEE-3 could be directed toward Halley, providing a drastically cheaper alternative to the more than $350 million that a new and more sophisticated mission would cost. He soon realized, however, that the radio on the diminutive probe was too weak to transmit data...
An interstellar coup: ice, a modest, almost archaic U. S. spacecraft, becomes the first man- made object to encounter a comet.
Drained by a growing number of huge personal-injury awards, insurers are struggling to increase profitability by boosting rates and even refusing to renew risky policies. Many of their rejected customers are having a hard time finding insurance at any price. Says Robert Rearden, president of Duncan Peek, an Atlanta...