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...explosive growth extended the bleak stretches of treeless housing tracts, especially inland. It intensified the traditional local conflict between a laid-back resort atmosphere and a stressful development. It imposed urban ills like crime and overcrowded jails. But at the same time it threw open the doors of opportunity, creating a fluid new nonpartisan politics. And, in the absence of blue-blood dynasties like those in Boston or San Francisco, it engendered an unapologetic admiration for new money...
...path of perestroika and demokratizatsiya, he will have to allow the Baltics to break away by Christmas and possibly Moldavia not long thereafter. Some experts, such as Francois Heisbourg, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, believe Gorbachev will use military force as a last resort to hold things together. Western intelligence officers, however, say the army has intervened very reluctantly in ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia and will not do so indefinitely...
Nowadays not just singers and actors but opticians hire press agents. So do restaurateurs, resort owners, novelists and increasing numbers of socialites. Nor is the phenomenon restricted to the East and West coasts. Says society writer Bill Zwecker of the Chicago weekly Skyline, who grew up in the business (his mother was a fashion columnist): "I'm finding more and more individuals who have public relations people...
...ethical questions. Chief among them: Is it right to conceive children expressly so that they can be donors? It is a dilemma that faces increasing numbers of parents today as researchers make possible more transplants of organs from living people. For the Ayalas, the drastic measure was a last resort. Neither Abe nor Mary has marrow that matches Anissa's. (Reason: her marrow has a mixture of genetic characteristics from both parents.) Nor does brother Airon, 19, have marrow that is compatible with his sister's. And a search for a suitable nonrelated donor has been fruitless to date, though...
...There is no question that further overrides will be necessary," says Rockport treasurer Bill Parsons, who cited the last year's move as a final resort to raise essential public funds. The question, Parsons says, is whether the town's residents will keep voting to approve the overrides...