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...some 40 states now restrict smoking in public places; 33 prohibit it in trains, buses, streetcars or subways; 17 forbid it in offices and other workplaces. There are also about 800 local ordinances against tobacco. The restrictions vary widely. Utah, for example, bars cigarette advertising on billboards, and Maine forbids smoking in covered bridges. But every week brings new rules and new tightening of old rules...
...government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
...standard contract currently used in many such arrangements does not provide the surrogate mother with many rights, but puts a good number of restraints on her. She agrees to abstain from smoking, alcohol and drugs as well as sexual intercourse during the period around insemination. Most agreements forbid her to abort without consent of the father, though some require it if amniocentesis reveals fetal abnormalities. And while the mothers are screened, though not always with sufficient diligence, the contracting couples often are not. What are the ethical dilemmas of a surrogate mother who delivers her child into a home...
...plane's midsection. Why? "You have a choice of over-wing emergency exits." New York Correspondent Joseph Boyce, only half facetiously, checks out the pilot. "It's always good if he's graying," says Boyce. "That means he is 'experienced.' But if he is completely gray and, heaven forbid, wears glasses, I begin to get uneasy." Clearly, for TIME's frequent flyers, humor helps keep worries about air safety in proper perspective...
...part of its crackdown on dissent in the schools, Pretoria last week empowered educational authorities to forbid students to wear shirts bearing unacceptable slogans on school grounds. The new regulations also covered uniforms and any other "article of clothing, case, flag, banner, pennant or poster," making it difficult for youngsters to use other sartorial means to express their views...