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...grass, the trees, especially those goofy cottonwood things that fly around here," laments Dorothy Jiganti, 48, an oncology nurse at Chicago's Grant Hospital. "It absolutely kills me." If you forget to take your pills, she says, "you just feel like you've got a cold all the time. It's a constant feeling of blah...
Other pervasive allergens are the spores made by molds, both the outdoor kind that grow on crops, grass and dead leaves and the household variety found on foods, leather, furniture and in air conditioners. All these fungi spores can produce vigorous allergic reactions. "Molds are boggling," says Washington University's Lewis. "There can be hundreds of thousands of mold spores per cubic meter of air." And, he points out, a person inhales about 10 or 12 cu m of air each...
Ordination tops the list of specific issues simply because "all major decision making is done by bishops," notes Ruth Fitzpatrick of Fairfax, Va., coordinator of the WOC. She sees grass-roots protest mushrooming. "We're watching the inward collapse of the whole patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church." Another radical, Sister Maureen Fielder of Catholics Speak Out in Mount Rainier, Md., reports that hundreds of groups of Catholics shun church-as-usual. "I know plenty of women who get together and celebrate the Eucharist together," she says...
Given the lack of leadership by governments, Maurice Strong, the summit's secretary-general, hopes ordinary people will force politicians to live up to the obligations articulated at Rio. He plans to make his own contribution to this grass-roots movement by heading an Earth Council, which he sees as a watchdog organization like the Helsinki Watch groups that sprang up after the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. The Earth Council's goal would be to ensure that institutions such as the Sustainable Development Commission actually do their...
...Perot as a personification of the American Dream (from newsboy to billionaire) and want to believe in him as a political savior. They are eager to perceive him as having the character and temperament to be President. So far, he has performed like the supersalesman he is. The grass-roots, empowering feel of his effort ("If you sign it, he will run") survives his having hired some political pros; few believe Perot can be controlled by anyone...