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...interview yesterday, Bok praised the Verba Report for stressing changes within the University's current affirmative action guidelines, rather than advocating any wholesale revision of those rules...
...downplayed criticism from some students andfaculty members that the report does not payenough attention to women's concerns such as childcare, citing the University's current efforts toexpand its day care facilities...
Theologically, the church teaches the infallibility of the Bible. Yet its approach is more evangelical than Fundamentalist. The church's eight elders do not generally take positions on controversial issues like liberation theology or school prayer. On what is perhaps the most controversial of all current moral issues, they ruled abortion out as a birth-control method but declared that it may be necessary "in exceptional cases...
...rolled up as he drives his 1985 chocolate brown Nissan pickup, his reputation precedes him. Anyone within a several-block radius can hear Tabarez coming, for he drives what is known as a "boom car." The auto mechanic from Gardena, Calif., spent $8,000 to install the vehicle's current stereo system, which comprises a deluxe Alpine 7902 compact-disc player, two heavy-duty Orion amplifiers and 32 speakers. His rig can deliver a bone-jarring 144 decibels of sound. "I just got carried away," he admits...
...NRDC report goes on to charge that the Government is failing to protect youngsters adequately from such dangers. It points out that current legal limits for pesticide residues, set by the EPA, are based on the consumption patterns and physiology of adults. Children eat a great deal more food for their body weight than adults. They also consume more fruit, which makes up an estimated 34% of preschoolers' diets, in contrast to 20% for adults'. Youngsters eat six times as many grapes, seven times as many apples and seven times as much applesauce as their parents. The typical preschooler drinks...