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...verdict, Mondello's father Michael yelled, "Thank God! Jesus has risen!" The Hawkins family, seated across the aisle, shrieked in dismay and, pointing at the jurors, shouted, "He did it! He did it!" As night fell on Friday, crowds of angry blacks milled about in Brooklyn, disrupting traffic and throwing rocks and bottles. Fires, possibly ignited by arsonists, erupted in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York sections of the borough, and a few whites, including several newsmen, were attacked but suffered only minor injuries...
Officials and workers share a growing fear that the country's vaunted economic miracle is ending. Exports are down from last year, imports are soaring, and inflation has already grown 4.7%. The once weak won has risen 31% against the dollar since 1986, while wages have soared 90%. Last week the stock market plunged to an 18-month low before rebounding slightly...
...1980s were an orgy of borrowing, as we know. But for every borrower there is a lender. The share of all personal income that comes from interest payments has risen a quarter in the past decade -- from 12% to 15% (an estimated $688 billion in 1990). Dividends as well make up a slightly larger share than in 1980, wages a slightly smaller share. This helps explain all the figures showing that income inequality increased dramatically during the 1980s...
Evidence that greenhouse warming has already started is at best tenuous. Even though some scientists believe the concentration of CO2 in the air has shot up 25% since the early 1800s, the average global temperature has risen by no more than 0.5 degrees C (1.1 degrees F), and even that measurement is suspect. Moreover, the rise has been uneven. From about 1940 to 1970, a cooling period inspired some forecasters to predict a return of the ice ages...
...glitz symbolized what has become a quiet revolution in Americans' consciousness. The environment has risen to the top of many peoples' political agendas--and its influence is increasing...