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Maastricht Passes Final Test Germany's highest court ruled that the Maastricht treaty on European unification is constitutional, clearing the way for the formal filing of ratification documents. Germany was the final European Community member to ratify, which means that the treaty will take effect...
...Through Music Listening to Mozart makes students smarter -- but only for 10 to 15 minutes. So argues a team of psychologists from the University of California at Irvine that published its preliminary findings in the British scientific journal Nature. Listening to relaxation tapes or sitting in silence had no effect, but the college students scored between eight and nine points higher on an IQ test after hearing a Mozart sonata. In the future the team plans, a bit tendentiously, to study whether repetitive music lacking in complexity (translation: rock) lowers test scores...
...globe preaching the ''evils'' of birth control in this day of runaway population growth, mass starvation and ever shrinking resources is beyond naive, beyond irresponsible. It is evil. And any leader who uses his forum to issue an encyclical ((RELIGION, Oct. 4)) that exacerbates the problems -- who, in effect, endorses and propagates the cause of the suffering -- is himself evil, no matter how fancy his hat or how white his robe. Paul McComas Chicago...
...couple studying a summary of the plan. The husband concludes that the goal of setting a national ceiling on health-care spending could end up cutting off benefits to individuals. The wife, looking stricken, replies, ''There's got to be a better way.'' Such ads are having an effect. Immediately after Clinton's September speech, a Washington Post poll showed the public approved his ideas 56% to 24%. A follow-up survey last week found the spread is 51% to 39%. While the White House frets about such slippage, promoters of competing plans see an opportunity. Congressman Jim Cooper...
President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has had a stunningly paradoxical effect on arms control. The American effort to create a shield against enemy missiles has given the Soviets a fresh incentive to develop new offensive weapons that would burst the remaining bonds of the arms-control process, which has been in stalemate. Yet it has also given the Soviets an incentive to return to the bargaining table and offer serious proposals in the hope of tightening the bonds of arms control around SDI itself. If there is a summit in November or December, Reagan the Star Warrior might...