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Life is tough for Soviet women. Really tough. Overworked and underappreciated, most of the Soviet Union's 149 million women fight an uphill battle simply to survive the daily grind -- an endless race against time in the effort to juggle job, housework and child care. The average Soviet woman has few modern conveniences, gets little sympathy from the boss and virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters...
Most patients are fitted with acrylic bite plates (about $600 apiece) to wear while sleeping or during the day. But some patients grind their teeth so furiously that they bite right through the plates. As a last resort, doctors recommend surgery to repair the joint. Until recently that meant a three-hour operation and a two-inch scar running in front of the ear. Now surgeons are increasingly using arthroscopy, a technique originally devised to correct knee damage. They insert the arthroscope, a thin telescopic tube, through an incision in the jaw and use tiny instruments to wash out debris...
...toward cleansing themselves of corruption. While some high-level bribery persists, both governments must convince poor farmers that they should get out of the coca business and give up the $1,000 the cartel pays for each 2.5 acres planted in the leaf. The local poseros, or processors, who grind the leaves into paste, are paid even better, which enables them to . acquire four-wheel-drive vehicles and color television sets. "It is an unbalanced and unfair fight," says Juan Carlos Duran, Bolivia's Interior and Justice Minister. "Drug kingpins work in terms of millions of dollars, while we have...
...HRAAA condones racism. HRAAA is not perfect and, as individuals and as a group, we struggle always to do better. It is regrettable when people like Smith and Simmons, by all appearances with personal axes to grind, agitate to undermine the credibility of a worth while organization and cause rather than working constructively to resolve any concerns they may have. Consuela M. Washington University Overseer
...Judge Anthony M. Kennedy for a liberal. Ronald Reagan's latest nominee to the Supreme Court appears to be a conservative in the truest sense of the word, conservative both in temperment and practice. Unlike either Robert Bork or Douglas Ginsburg, he seems to have few ideological axes to grind. If the words of colleagues of all persuasions can be trusted, Kennedy is a most judicious judge, one whose written opinions demonstrate a painstaking commitment to weighing the facts of a given case in light of applicable law and not to remaking the judiciary and society so they accord with...