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...programs, which involve the granting of debt relief to developing nations in exchange for steps to protect rain forests and other resources, have not taken off in a big way. In the past year or so, only $100 million in debt has been forgiven in return for preserves in Costa Rica and elsewhere. The sticking point: Who will bear the cost of the debt relief? So far, private environmental groups have bought small amounts of Third World debt securities from commercial lenders, but the governments of the developed nations will have to put in more money if the debt...
What can one boy or girl do to preserve the world's rain forests? Ask Jiro Nakayama. He's the twelve-year-old leader of a band of schoolchildren in Nagano, Japan, who have already saved 40 acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate...
...source declined to elaborate on the specifics of the planning process. Harvard spokesperson Peter Costa and University Marshal Richard M. Hunt refused comment last night...
Kohl also becomes the fourth straight world leader--and the second German in four years--to deliver the Commencement address, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and West German President Richard von Weizsacker...
After the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., gave front-page display to San Francisco's 1989 gay freedom-day parade, copy editor Bill Walter declared in a memo, "Bad things, disgusting things, inhuman things happen . . . But we don't have to describe every naked person, or show a photo of every dead body." The message was clear: "disgusting" things are better left off the front page. That is a dangerous mind-set for a journalist. Yet that spirit has permeated coverage of gay issues in general -- and of AIDS in particular...