Subject: REGIONS
Date: Published: 2/26/88 57 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

   REGIONS
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   By Eugene Carlson

   In the West, a Break
   On College Tuition

 PARENTS STARING with glazed eyes at college tuition
payments may find relief in a new cooperative program offered
by a Western college network.  The plan opens undergraduate
programs at 55 colleges and universities in 10 Western states
to students from that region at costs not much higher than
those paid by in-state students.

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 Calculating Lost Income
    From AIDS in Nevada
    WITH A NOD to the human tragedy associated with AIDS, two
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professors have gone on to
calculate the likely lost personal income stemming from state
residents diagnosed with AIDS and AIDS-related diseases.
   The study is based on 65 AIDS cases, virtually the entire
AIDS caseload reported to Nevada health officials from 1982
to 1986.  Although medical information is largely
confidential, Profs.  Clarence Ray and Vicky Carwein learned
the age and occupation of each AIDS patient, then figured the
wages and salaries that each person would earn had he or she
remained in Nevada until retirement.  Fewer than 10 of the 65
people are still alive.
   The study estimated current and future income, adjusted
for inflation, at $84.8 million.  Much of that total would
have returned to the Nevada economy as savings, taxes and
consumer spending.
   The numbers become numbing when one looks ahead.  Nevada's
AIDS caseload is small compared with most states, but the
rate of infection there is surging.  Eighty-seven new AIDS
cases were diagnosed last year, more than a threefold
increase from 1986.
   The Clark County Health District, which includes Las
Vegas, estimates the number of people in Nevada infected with
the AIDS virus at 9,500, about 1% of the state population.
Recent evidence indicates that about one-third of all people
carrying the AIDS virus develop a fatal AIDS-related disease
within seven years.

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