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...accommodate. The poorer nations must make monumental efforts to remove incentives for people to have large families. This will require massive social change, including better education and improved access to family planning. With each passing year, it becomes more likely that the fastest- growing nations will be forced to adopt coercive measures, as China has, if they are to stabilize their numbers...
Last week the Greek Foreign Minister Michalis Papaconstantinou was in Washington, and I had a chance to ask him about this whole business. He maintains that for Macedonia to "adopt a Greek name" is a "provocation" that "implies territorial claims against...
...time table for instituting the policy remains unclear, but officials speculated that all of the graduate schools will eventually adopt...
What's still unknown is whether Perot would come in for keeps, or just for kicks. Perot met last week with White House chief of staff James Baker, in part to determine whether Bush might adopt Perot's own rigorous plan for fixing the nation's economic problems. Bush officials regarded that probe as a ploy. Said one: "He was just going through the necessary steps so he could say when he got in that 'Bush isn't serious about fixing the problem...
...lead to such a death. Pamela Basu, 34, was an award-winning research chemist with W.R. Grace & Co. The Indian-born scientist is described by colleagues as a vibrant and outspoken intellectual who doted on her daughter. They recall the endless obstacles she and her husband Biswanath overcame to adopt the little girl named Sarina...