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...situation is the subject of a simmering debate. Take unwanted pregnancies. While publicly funded abortion has long been accepted as a method of birth control among Chinese married couples, the state refuses to make contraceptives available to single people. Many unmarried women are thus driven to seek dangerous back-alley abortions rather than risk the scandal that would arise from exposure of their illicit affairs if they chose legal channels. "If we teach them how to prevent pregnancies, maybe premarital sex will become even more common," frets Liu. Still, Dr. Wu labels Beijing's stand hypocritical, pointing out that government...
...fortunate. "As you bike past certain streets, you are overwhelmed by rancid smells of rotting garbage," says Jeannie Little of Greenville, S.C., passing though the Windy City on a tour of the U.S. From an apartment in a pricey neighborhood she can see rats in the alley below snacking on spilled morsels. Says Little: "I'm horrified by the fact that we generate so much garbage and don't have a place...
...Lovett, with no apparent regret. "It wouldn't work for me. But I do what I want with my music, so I get away with murder there." Raised in a Lutheran family outside Houston, Lovett, whose gentle eyes are set into the lean, long-jawed face of a back- alley shiv artist, acts straight but makes intrepid music. Listen to the recent Pontiac (MCA), and you can really hear him cut loose in tunes like If I Had a Boat: "The mystery masked man was smart/ He got himself a Tonto/ 'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free...
...portrait of Showman Flo is slack and bland, the glimpse of Churchill in wartime likely to appeal only to those with nostalgia for buzz bombs. In the wings: mostly revivals, including Can-Can and Brigadoon. Bemoans Producer Cameron Mackintosh (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables): "It's Mausoleum Alley here." In part, the West End is the ironic victim of its own past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more, and ten of those have already been seen on Broadway. Cuts in government funding have made even the two big subsidized...
...into folk music, then the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival is right up your alley. Featuring political satirist Tom Paxton, the a cappella group the Bobs, and blues singers Taj Mahal and Odetta, the festival takes place from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $20 per day, and children age 8 to 14 get in for $8. Call 203-364-0366 for details...