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Despite the nagging debt problem, Italy has made enormous strides. Last year's inflation rate was only 4.3%, in contrast to more than 20% in 1980. Carli and Brittan agreed that Italy's GNP is now close to that of Britain and is probably larger if the thriving Italian underground economy is counted...
...School students, faculty, and staff use the public tunnels to travel underground from building to building. Laundry rooms. Coke machines, and bathrooms dot the yellow cement-brick walls, and the steam pipes far above are barely noticeable. People pass through unconcerned by the strange clicking noise can be heard coming from the pipes at intersections. Decorative flagstones pave the floor in some places...
Terrence Peter Jackson lived quietly in a small rented house in Eugene and worked as a physical therapist for a local hospital. But when the FBI came to his door last week, Jackson admitted to being Silas Trim Bissell, 44, one of the founders of the violent Weather Underground movement and a fugitive since 1970, when he skipped bail on charges of conspiring to bomb a Reserve Officer Training Center in Seattle...
...Hungary, homeless addicts jam the underground pedestrian passageways of Budapest's Moscow Square, and dealers ply the stairways, offering everything from hashish to morphine-laced pills. In Poland, groups of addicts travel to the outskirts of Warsaw to buy sacks of poppy stalks from farmers, which they use to concoct homemade heroin. And in the Soviet Union, a young man rolls up his sleeve to show television viewers an inner forearm riddled with needle marks...
...argument for legalization is that forbidding surrogacy will simply drive it underground, ensuring that an unregulated black-market trade will flourish. But if the practice is to be permitted, in what form should it survive? Fearing that conception, the most intimate of functions, might become one more branch of private enterprise, some experts want surrogacy to be conducted like adoption, mostly through nonprofit agencies. "I do not think people should be gestating babies for money," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Bio-Medical Ethics Center at the University of Minnesota. "Entrepreneurs who come into the business are not being screened...