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Late opinion polls show that Florida voters are split about even on the issue. Some election handicappers think that if the proposition is defeated, the newspapers' financial help may be the deciding factor. Does that really matter? Because the press in many places is reticent about covering its own affairs, no one really knows how common it is for a news organization to lobby behind the scenes or support a controversial cause financially. Yet a number of papers and journalists' groups have codes of ethics that ban such involvement. Whether or not Florida's press succeeds...
...most significant factor in the accumulation of CO2 is the burning of fossil fuels. Especially worrisome is the Carter Administration's choice of coal as the U.S.'s great energy hope. Unlike competing nuclear power, which gives off no CO2, coal will inevitably add to a buildup of the gas, as will the increased consumption of other fossil fuels. A National Academy of Sciences study panel warns that if the use of coal proceeds along the Administration's projections, atmospheric concentration of CO2 might reach four to eight times that of the pre-industrial level...
Shinagel said the low cost of courses is another factor which attracts students. Most one semester courses cost only $80 if taken for credit. "The low tuition rates and the outstanding academic program are a winning combination," he said...
There are suspicions, however, that security is no longer Israel's sole reason for trying to hold on to the lands it conquered eleven years ago. The fiercely devout Begin has introduced a troubling religious factor into the argument by maintaining that events related in the Old Testament give Israel a historic claim to the West Bank. He even insists on calling the region by its Biblical names of Samaria and Judea. He declared to the Knesset: "We did not take strange land; we returned to our homeland. The tie between our nation and this land is eternal...
...bedfellows. There were Feminists Valerie Harper, Jean Stapleton and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke clustered around their hosts, Hugh Hefner and his daughter Christie, who were throwing a $100-a-plate dinner in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Reasoned the president of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.: "Playboy is clearly a major factor in the sexual revolution. And clearly the social-sexual revolution is related to the women's movement." Nor were the feminists shy about accepting Hef's hospitality. Said Burke: "The people we have to get to support ERA are some of Hefner's constituents." Apparently his money...