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...from the ballroom is a pile of rocks, a grave with a planted cross that reads OLD MAN WINTER. By mid-May the grave and a whole lot of tire tracks will be all that remains of the flock of snowbirds that have migrated north to follow the seasons. Traffic on I-10 will be down to a trickle, and the swamp coolers in Dolly's Restaurant will be cranked up, working overtime to beat the heat...
Getting large numbers of nations to agree on anything, especially delicate policy issues, is no easy job. But now that scientists have convinced policymakers that the earth's ozone layer is in grave danger, governments are moving with unusual speed and resolve. Meeting in Helsinki last week, representatives from 86 countries said they favored a total ban on certain chlorofluorocarbons, man-made chemicals believed to be destroying the ozone, / by the end of the century at the latest. That goes far beyond the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% cut in CFC manufacture...
...forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...
...Anglicans for plunging ahead without giving sufficient attention to "the ecumenical and ecclesiological dimensions" of the innovation. The need for such consideration, he stated, is now "urgent" to "prevent a serious erosion of the degree of communion between us." The women's issue, says one Vatican expert, constitutes "a grave setback...
...without consequences. Children play video games in which they win points for killing the most people. They watch violence-packed cartoons. They listen to songs titled Be My Slave and Scumkill. Or they are baby-sat by vastly popular movie videotapes like Splatter University and I Spit on Your Grave. Says sociologist Gail Dines-Levy of Wheelock College in Boston: "What we are doing is training a whole generation of male kids to see sex and violence as inextricably linked...