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However, Wallace indicated that the committee'seffectiveness will depend on how much funding itreceives from the university...
...easy one. What should children be told, and when? Clearly there are no absolute rules. Variations depend on how each child is maturing, even where a family lives. Children from rural backgrounds, particularly farms, are more in tune with sex and reproductive cycles than their supposedly sophisticated urban counterparts. The experts offer general guidelines based on experience. Leah Lefstein, acting director of the Center for Early Adolescence in Chapel Hill, N.C., notes, "Kids are aware of human sexuality at an earlier age than we give them credit for. They are three years old when they want to know where babies...
...solution, however, need not await or depend on the crumbling of the public school system. Some towns are evolving their own compromises. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., after a fierce conservative protest against an eleventh- grade sex-ed program, the school decided to offer three different courses. About 60% of the students attend the liberal "Family Life" course; 25% take the conservative option, "Sexuality, Commitment and Family"; and 15%, including those who make no choice at all, end up in a health course without...
Since local residents depend on the forest for a livelihood, Monarca and the government are attempting to find ways to diversify the area's economy. They have devised an ambitious program to improve the yield of already existing farmland, establish orchards, build more greenhouses (chrysanthemums are already grown in the region and sold for export) and even start fish- breeding pools. Though the plan is only beginning to be implemented, many environmentalists consider it part of a new chapter in Third World conservation. "Setting aside these sites as reserves is only a first step," says Curtis Freese, director of Latin...
...developing country can build an auto industry almost overnight and quickly crack the American market. Japan, the premier auto exporter of the '80s, is still fighting hard for U.S. market share and is rapidly building up its own American manufacturing capacity, largely in so-called transplant factories that depend heavily on imported Japanese parts. Meanwhile, American auto companies have entered into new and exotic relationships with foreign producers, both in the U.S. and abroad, that can only further add to the potential auto glut. By 1990 the excess production capacity in the U.S. could reach 1 million to 2 million...