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...Trade Representative Carla Hills warned last week that the Uruguay Round is "in jeopardy" because of the E.C.'s stubbornness on farm subsidies. To underscore her point, U.S. trade negotiators plan this week to propose reductions of as much as 70% in all worldwide domestic farm subsidies, plus even heavier cuts in export subsidies and greater market access for such agricultural imports as corn and wheat in the E.C., sugar and dairy products in the U.S. and rice in Japan. The so-called Cairns Group of 14 agricultural- exporting countries ranging from Argentina to Australia has threatened to block accords...
Brooks' story goes a little lighter on musicology and a little heavier on personal drama. Black, who writes or co-writes most of his tunes, seems to save himself for his music. Brooks, who co-wrote only three of the cuts on his new second album, No Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said...
That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...
...common thread in the three systems," says Exon, "is the problem of previous-generation high explosives." All three weapons carry them, rather than a less volatile Insensitive High Explosive, which is heavier and thus decreases the range of a missile or artillery shell. By presidential order IHE nonetheless has been used in all new weapons built since 1985 -- with, however, at least one exception. Even after that date, defense planners decided not to switch to IHE in the Trident W-88 warhead. That is a design trade-off that the Pentagon may soon bitterly regret...
...long been clear that people's weight is determined by a balance of heredity and life-style. But which exerts the heavier effect? Two reports in last week's New England Journal of Medicine tip the scales firmly toward genetic makeup...